Relative social deprivation -- Disability as social deprivation -- Deprivation as a restriction of freedom -- The doing/allowing distinction -- Knowledge and intention -- Consequences, duties and rights -- Applications -- Nozick's retort : natural assets and arbitrariness -- An argument from democracy -- Nietzsche's thought experiment : the idea of eternal recurrence -- The role of genealogy -- Other ways of seeing
Summary
Deprivation and Freedom investigates the key issue of social deprivation. It looks at how serious that issue is, what we should do about it and how we might motivate people to respond to it. It covers core areas in moral and political philosophy in new and interesting ways, presents the topical example of disability as a form of social deprivation, shows that we are not doing nearly enough for certain sections of our communities and encourages that we think differently about how we should best organise our societies in the future. The book develops a comprehensive yet
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-154) and index
