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Political and philosophical debate in welfare / Allyn Fives ; edited by Jo Campling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fives, Allyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 236 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Political Philosophy and Welfare 1
- Political philosophy 1
- Political philosophy and welfare 2
- Three theories of welfare 8
- Principles of justice 11
- Welfare as a benefit type 15
- 2 Utilitarianism 21
- J.S. Mill's Perfectionism and the 'Harm Principle' 23
- Higher pleasures and liberty 23
- Happiness is the only thing desirable as an end 26
- Justice and charity 29
- Consequentialism and utility 31
- Consequentialism 31
- Welfarism and sum-ranking 32
- Utilitarianism, distributive principles, and rights 35
- R.E. Goodin: Welfare interests and the welfare state 39
- 3 Liberalism 45
- The two principles of justice 46
- Welfare liberalism 51
- The original position 52
- Rationality and the original position 54
- The maximin rule 54
- Reflective equilibrium 56
- The social contract approach 57
- Fairness: Ronald Dworkin and natural primary goods 59
- Impartiality: Sen and Nussbaum's capabilities approach 62
- Means-ends distinction: Robert Nozick's libertarianism 65
- 4 Conservatism 69
- Robert Nisbet: Nineteenth-century conservatism 71
- Property and community 71
- Tradition and prejudice 73
- Justice and charity 74
- Francis Fukuyama: Contemporary American conservatism 76
- Trust 76
- American community 78
- Conservatism contra the liberal market model 80
- Conservatism: The key themes 81
- Emile Durkheim: Professional ethics and civic morals 83
- Moral particularism 83
- Political authorities and the limits of property rights 84
- Durkheim, Hegel, Kant (and Rawls) 85
- A conservative welfare state? 88
- Tories and Christian Democrats 88
- Harold Perkin: Professional society and the professional ideal 89
- The state and the welfare state 90
- 5 Socialism 95
- Classical Marxism: Historical materialsim, exploitation, and alienation 96
- Historical materialism 97
- Capitalism and morality 98
- Socialism and morality 100
- G.A. Cohen: 'Against the Marxist Technological Fix' 103
- Against historical materialism 103
- Self-ownership 104
- Socialism: The key themes 105
- Two models of a socialist welfare state 108
- Post-war British Welfare State 108
- The Scandinavian model 109
- R.H. Tawney: Ethical socialism 111
- A socialist ethic 112
- Equality 113
- Perfectionism 114
- Anthony Crosland: Liberal socialism 115
- Three socialist aspirations 115
- Criticisms of Crosland 117
- 6 Political Liberalism 120
- Michael Sandel's communitarian critique of Rawls 121
- The 'unencumbered self' 121
- A philosophy of common purposes 123
- The feminist critique of Rawls 125
- The self: Family and gender 126
- Ethic of care 127
- Four feminist proposals 128
- Rawlsian feminism 131
- Rawls's political liberalism 132
- A Political conception of justice 132
- Justice as fairness 134
- Religion and the family 135
- Martha Nussbaum's political liberalism 137
- Political liberalism revised 137
- Response to feminist and communitarian critiques of liberalism 139
- Impartiality and the capabilities approach 141
- 7 Communitarianism 144
- Alasdair MacIntyre: Tradition-dependent communitarianism 145
- MacIntyre's critique of modern morality 146
- Virtue and the polis 147
- Non-relative communitarianism 151
- Against pessimism and relativism 151
- Communitarianism within mainstream political philosophy 154
- Non-relative communitarianism 155
- Charles Taylor: Liberal communitarianism 158
- Distributive justice within communities 158
- Politics of recognition 160
- Some problems with hermeneutics 163
- Michael Walzer: Pluralist communitarianism 164
- 8 Radicalism 169
- Michel Foucault and post-modernism 170
- Genealogy 170
- Dissociation of identity 172
- Critique and resistance 174
- The post-modern welfare state 176
- Genealogy of 'dependency' 176
- Hegemony and welfare 177
- Modes of relation to oneself 179
- Some problems with post-modernism 180
- Jurgen Habermas and critical theroy 182
- Communicative action and universal pragmatic rules of argumentation 182
- A radical-democratic interpretation of political liberalism 184
- Critical theory and the welfare state 186
- Politics of recognition and basic income 186
- Colonization of the life-world and environmentalism 189
- 9 In Defence of State Welfare 195
- The New Right critique of state welfare 196
- Efficiency 196
- Justice 198
- Culture of dependency 199
- The Third way 200
- Raymond Plant: Social rights 203
- Positive freedom and rights 203
- Social human rights 205
- Well-being and autonomy 206
- Russell Keat: Common goods and market limits 208
- Practices and the market 208
- Consumer-friendly practices and practice-friendly consumption 210
- Politics of common goods 212
- G.A. Cohen: Reformulation of Rawls's 'difference principle' 214
- Who should (unilaterally) help whom? 214
- The 'difference principle' revised 215
- Virtue and community 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781403987372
- 1403987378
- 1403987386
- 9781403987389
- OCLC:
- 190966746
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