Protecting the Vulnerable: A Re-Analysis of Our Social Responsibilities

by Robert E. Goodin

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Our narrower obligations often blind us to larger social responsibilities. The moral claims arising out of special relationships--family, friends, colleagues, and so on--always seem to take priority. Strangers ordinarily get, and ordinarily are thought to deserve, only what is left over. Robert E. Goodin argues that this is morally mistaken. In Protecting the Vulnerable, he presents a comprehensive theory of responsibility based on the concept...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226302997

ISBN13:9780226302997

Release Date:August 1986

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:243 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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History Politics & Government Social Philosophy Social Science Social Sciences

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