The Basic Minimum
eBook - PDF

The Basic Minimum

A Welfarist Approach

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Basic Minimum

A Welfarist Approach

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE BASIC MINIMUM
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. CHAPTER 1: On the concept (and some conceptions) of the basic minimum
  9. CHAPTER 2: A welfarist basic minimum
  10. CHAPTER 3: Adaptive preferences
  11. CHAPTER 4: The intrinsic value of the basic minimum
  12. CHAPTER 5: Against rights
  13. CHAPTER 6: On objections to welfarism
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

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