The Needs of StrangersThis thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them from Augustine to Bosch, from Rosseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, "The Needs of Strangers" returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human. |
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... welfare states , entitlements are still perceived both by the giver and the receiver , as gifts . To be in need , to be in receipt of welfare , is still understood as a source of shame . Needs may make rights in law , but they do not ...
... welfare states , entitlements are still perceived both by the giver and the receiver , as gifts . To be in need , to be in receipt of welfare , is still understood as a source of shame . Needs may make rights in law , but they do not ...
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... welfare system can reconcile this contradiction between treating individuals equally and treating individuals with respect . The most common criticism of modern welfare is precisely that in treating everyone the same it ends up treating ...
... welfare system can reconcile this contradiction between treating individuals equally and treating individuals with respect . The most common criticism of modern welfare is precisely that in treating everyone the same it ends up treating ...
Page 137
... welfare state would have brought us closer together . The welfare state has tried to enact fraternity by giving each individual a claim of right to common resources . Yet meeting everyone's basic needs does not necessarily meet their ...
... welfare state would have brought us closer together . The welfare state has tried to enact fraternity by giving each individual a claim of right to common resources . Yet meeting everyone's basic needs does not necessarily meet their ...
Contents
Tragedy and Utopia | 7 |
THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL | 25 |
THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT | 100 |
Copyright | |
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The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
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Adam Smith amour de soi Augustine Augustinian autarky basic need beggar belonging blind body Bosch's Boswell Cambridge capacity capitalist certainty choice choose Christian citizens civic claim commercial society common consolation Cordelia creatures critique daughters David Hume death desire Discourse on Inequality division of labour duty economic equality father flesh fraternity freedom give happiness Haywain heath Hieronymus Bosch human nature human needs Hume Treatise Hume's hunger individuals inequality insisted invisible hand J. G. A. Pocock justice King Lear Lear's liberty live London madness man's Marx means metaphysical modern moral necessity needs of strangers never obligation Paradise Pascal passion Penguin Philosophy Physiocratic pity poor question reason reconcile Religion religious republic respect retinue rich Rousseau Saint satisfaction scarcity secular self-command Social Contract solidarity species spiral of need spirit spiritual need Stoic things Thou Tom O'Bedlam tragedy utopia virtue vision welfare yearning