The basic minimum : a welfarist approach / Dale Dorsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorsey, Dale, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ethics.

Basic needs--Philosophy.

Basic needs.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23060-8

1-107-08682-5

1-280-48574-4

1-139-23310-6

9786613580726

1-139-23088-3

1-139-22942-7

1-139-06208-5

1-139-23233-9

1-139-23387-4

OCLC:

780425848