Buch, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Buch, Englisch, 381 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-0-333-38325-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction. The authors develop a system of social indicators to show what such optimization would mean in practice and assess the records of a wide range of developed and underdeveloped economies in meeting their citizens' needs
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Weitere Infos & Material
Prefaces.- Introduction.- PART I: RELATIVISM AND THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN NEED.- Who Needs Human Needs?.- The Inevitability of Human Needs.- The Grammar of Human Needs.- PART 2: A THEORY OF HUMAN NEED.- The Basic Needs of Persons.- Societal Preconditions for Need Satisfaction.- Human Liberation and the Right to Optimal Need Satisfaction.- Optimising Need Satisfaction in Theory.- PART 3: HUMAN NEEDS IN PRACTICE.- Measuring Need Satisfaction.- Health and Autonomy Intermediate.- Needs Societal Preconditions for Optimising.- Need Satisfaction.- Charting Human Welfare.- PART 4: THE POLITICS OF HUMAN NEED.- Towards a Political Economy of Need Satisfaction.- The Dual Strategy.
