Well-Being Thresholds and Moral Priority
A welfarist basic minimum is a level of well-being which is the threshold for minimally adequate lives and which serves, in some sense, as a line of moral priority. In his ambitious and philosophically sophisticated book, Dale Dorsey takes on the task of specifying a welfarist basic minimum. His acc...
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Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2015, Volume: 12, Issue: 6, Pages: 773-786 |
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B Poverty B Well-being B moral thresholds B Welfarism B basic minimum |
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