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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?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2006

David Wiggins
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1. Conferences on the subject of need are lamentably rare. All the more honour then for this one to the Royal Institute of Philosophy (an organisation long dedicated to saving philosophy’s better self from its worse), to the Philosophy Department at Durham, and to Soran Reader, the organizer and editor.1. Conferences on the subject of need are lamentably rare. All the more honour then for this one to the Royal Institute of Philosophy (an organisation long dedicated to saving philosophy’s better self from its worse), to the Philosophy Department at Durham, and to Soran Reader, the organizer and editor.

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Research Article
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 57: The Philosophy of Need , December 2005 , pp. 25 - 50
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2005

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