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Social life and moral judgment / Antony Flew.
LIBRA HV31 .F55 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flew, Antony, 1923-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--Philosophy.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Welfare state--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Welfare state.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 179 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. Is Human Sociobiology Possible? 1
- The Project of Human Sociobiology 2
- How to Inherit Acquired Characteristics 3
- How to Frustrate Your Genes 5
- Two Kinds of Power 9
- 2. Anti-Social Determinism 13
- What Anti-Social Determinism Is 13
- Two Kinds both of Cause and of Determinism 15
- Agency and the Two Kinds of Bodily Movement 18
- But where does the Buck Actually Stop? 22
- 3. State Welfare and Individual Demoralization 29
- What the Welfare State Crowded Out 30
- Social Laws and "Social" Justice 31
- The Rise of Single Motherhood and the Decline of the Family 37
- What is to be Done? 40
- 4. Self-Improvement and Social Action 49
- Signs of Collectivist and Statist Times 50
- The Moralist's Temptation 53
- Health and "Social" Justice 57
- Low Pay or no Pay? 61
- What Faith in the City? 64
- 5. Welfare Rights for the Formerly Disadvantaged 73
- Welfare Rights as Opposed to Option Rights 73
- A New Kind of Welfare Rights 74
- Anti-Discriminatory Welfare Rights Actually Promote Discrimination 81
- Race, Culture, and Intelligence 84
- Welfare Rights for the Brutes? 90
- 6. Sincerity, Rationality, and Monitoring 99
- Three Basic Principles 99
- A First Application of the Three Principles 104
- A Second Application of the Three Principles 107
- A Third Application of the Three Principles 110
- 7. Selfishness, Exploitation, and the Profit Motive 115
- Self-Interest and Selfishness 116
- An Aristotelian Interlude 119
- Wants or Needs, Choice or Command 123
- 8. "Social" Justice and Private Property 129
- But did that Book Deserve such Adulation? 129
- A Digression Concerning Equal Value 134
- The Unargued Socialist Assumption 135
- Justice as Fairness or Justice as Justice? 138
- The Property Presuppositions of the Priority of Liberty 141
- 9. Moral Education in Secular State Schools 149
- Why Schools have become so Important 150
- Why our State Systems must be Secular 151
- A Propagandizing False Start 153
- The Essentials of Social Morality 156
- Is this Syllabus Sufficient? 159.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765801558
- OCLC:
- 50041336
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