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
10 - Where Does the Moral Force of the Concept of Needs Reside and When?
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
My point of departure in the book Meeting Needs was the conviction that the concept of needs has moral force, but the force has been dissipated and anyway made hard to see by multiple complications including but not confined to multiple abuses.1 I now think that is only half the problem.
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- A Philosophy of Need , pp. 309 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024