Book contents
- A Philosophy of Need
- Talking Philosophy
- A Philosophy of Need
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 An Idea We Cannot Do Without: What Difference Will It Make (eg. to Moral, Political and Environmental Philosophy) to Recognize and Put to Use a Substantial Conception of Need?
- 2 Needs and Global Justice
- 3 Need, Humiliation and Independence
- 4 Needs and Ethics in Ancient Philosophy
- 5 Aristotle on Necessities and Needs
- 6 Need, Care and Obligation
- 7 Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth
- 8 Fundamental Needs
- 9 Needs, Rights, and Collective Obligations
- 10 Where Does the Moral Force of the Concept of Needs Reside and When?
- 11 Needs and Capabilities
- Index
9 - Needs, Rights, and Collective Obligations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2024
Book contents
- A Philosophy of Need
- Talking Philosophy
- A Philosophy of Need
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 An Idea We Cannot Do Without: What Difference Will It Make (eg. to Moral, Political and Environmental Philosophy) to Recognize and Put to Use a Substantial Conception of Need?
- 2 Needs and Global Justice
- 3 Need, Humiliation and Independence
- 4 Needs and Ethics in Ancient Philosophy
- 5 Aristotle on Necessities and Needs
- 6 Need, Care and Obligation
- 7 Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth
- 8 Fundamental Needs
- 9 Needs, Rights, and Collective Obligations
- 10 Where Does the Moral Force of the Concept of Needs Reside and When?
- 11 Needs and Capabilities
- Index
Summary
Normative political discussion can be conducted in a variety of different vocabularies. One such is the vocabulary of rights; another is that of needs. Others, with which I shall be less immediately concerned, are the vocabularies of common good and perhaps—although one might regard it as such a general term as to be common to almost all the terms in which one might conduct normative discourse—that of moral obligation.1
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- A Philosophy of Need , pp. 277 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024