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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2012
      02 February 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139062084
      9781107017115
      9781107451513
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139062084
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    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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    "...Dorsey's work is important because it tries to give form to some of our most basic moral intuitions. His arguments offer excellent starting points for further discussion.... Dorsey should be commended for wading into difficult and complex philosophical territory..."
    --Krista Thomason, Swarthmore College, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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