UID:
almahu_9947415041702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781139062084 (ebook)
Content:
A common presupposition in contemporary moral and political philosophy is that individuals should be provided with some basic threshold of goods, capabilities, or well-being. But if there is such a basic minimum, how should this be understood? Dale Dorsey offers an underexplored answer: that the basic minimum should be characterized not as the achievement of a set of capabilities, or as access to some specified bundle of resources, but as the maintenance of a minimal threshold of human welfare. In addition, Dorsey argues that though political institutions should be committed to the promotion of this minimal threshold, we should reject approaches that seek to cast the basic minimum as a human right. His book will be important for all who are interested in theories of political morality.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction -- 1. On the concept (and some conceptions) of the basic minimum -- 2. A welfarist basic minimum -- 3. Adaptive preferences -- 4. The intrinsic value of the basic minimum -- 5. Against rights -- 6. On objections to welfarism.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107017115
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139062084
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