1st Edition

Talking About Welfare Readings in Philosophy

322 Pages

by Routledge

322 Pages

by Routledge

322 Pages

by Routledge

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Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare. The book introduces a number of philosophers, social workers and social administrators, concentrating on problems in describing a general philosophical orientation to social work, what it means to understand another person, and to problems in describing... Read more

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction, Noel Timms and David Watson

1. The Right to Welfare, T.H. Marshall

2. The Concept of Welfare, Richard B. Brandt

3. The Good of Man, G.H. Von Wright

4. Alienation and Self-Realization, Kai Nielsen

5. Human Rights, Real and Supposed, Maurice Cranston

6. Welfare State and Welfare Society, R.M. Titmuss

7. Respect for Persons and Public Morality, R.S. Downie and Elizabeth Telfer

8. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, David Donnison

9. Who is my Stranger?, R.M. Titmuss