Brock Necessary Goods

Our Responsibilities to Meet Others Needs
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-1-4617-0499-7
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

Do any needs defensibly make claims on anyone? If so, which needs and whose needs can defensibly do this? What are the grounds for our responsibilities to meet others' needs, when we have such responsibilities? The distinguished contributors to this volume consider these questions as they evaluate the moral force of needs. They approach questions of obligation and moral importance from a variety of different theoretical perspectives, including contractarian, Kantian, Aristotelian, rights-based, egalitarian, liberal, and libertarian perspectives. Much contemporary discourse about moral and political matters employs the language of needs; Necessary Goods is an important book for philosophers and political theorists tackling the ever-present problem of our responsibilities towards others. Contributors: John Baker, David Braybrooke, Gillian Brock, David Copp, Len Doyal, Harry Frankfurt, Robert Goodin, Charles Jones, Martha Nussbaum, Onora O'Neill, James Sterba, David Wiggins.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brock, Gillian

Über Autor(innen)

Gillian Brock is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her articles have appeared in many journals, including Ethics, Analysis, Public Affairs Quarterly, Philosophia, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics Quarterly.