1st Edition

Talking About Welfare Readings in Philosophy

Edited By Noel W Timms, David Watson Copyright 1976
    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1976 Talking About Welfare is a collection of essays providing a general survey of the problems facing social welfare. The book introduces a number of philosophers, social workers and social administrators, concentrating on problems in describing a general philosophical orientation to social work, what it means to understand another person, and to problems in describing and justifying social work and social welfare activity. The essays collected contribute to discussion of a wide range of welfare issues, principally that of personal and social welfare, the moral justification of welfare provision, and conceptions of community.

    Notes on contributors

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction, Noel Timms and David Watson

    1. The Right to Welfare, T.H. Marshall

    2. The Concept of Welfare, Richard B. Brandt

    3. The Good of Man, G.H. Von Wright

    4. Alienation and Self-Realization, Kai Nielsen

    5. Human Rights, Real and Supposed, Maurice Cranston

    6. Welfare State and Welfare Society, R.M. Titmuss

    7. Respect for Persons and Public Morality, R.S. Downie and Elizabeth Telfer

    8. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, David Donnison

    9. Who is my Stranger?, R.M. Titmuss

    10. The Concept of Community, John Benson

    11. The Function of Social Work in Society, Peter Leonard

    12. The Art and Science of Helping, Alan Keith-Lucas

    13. Knowing by Living Through, Dorothy Walsh

    14. On Not Being Judgmental, Ian T. Ramsey

    Bibliography

    Biography

    Noel W Timms, David Watson