Protecting our most vulnerable residents
Title | Protecting our most vulnerable residents PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Political Science |
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PROTECTING OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS: A REVIEW OF REFORM EFFORTS AT THE... HEARING... COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Title | PROTECTING OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS: A REVIEW OF REFORM EFFORTS AT THE... HEARING... COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 2003* |
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Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Residents: A Review of Reform Efforts At The District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency, May 16, 2003, *
Title | Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Residents: A Review of Reform Efforts At The District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency, May 16, 2003, * PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 2003* |
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Saving Seniors and Our Most Vulnerable Citizens from an Entitlement Crisis
Title | Saving Seniors and Our Most Vulnerable Citizens from an Entitlement Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Entitlement spending |
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California is Not Adequately Prepared to Protect Its Most Vulnerable Residents from Natural Disasters
Title | California is Not Adequately Prepared to Protect Its Most Vulnerable Residents from Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | California. State Auditor (2013-) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Assistance in emergencies |
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Defending America's Most Vulnerable
Title | Defending America's Most Vulnerable PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Law |
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Protecting the Vulnerable
Title | Protecting the Vulnerable PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Goodin |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0226302997 |
Our narrower obligations often blind us to larger social responsibilities. The moral claims arising out of special relationships—family, friends, colleagues, and so on—always seem to take priority. Strangers ordinarily get, and ordinarily are thought to deserve, only what is left over. Robert E. Goodin argues that this is morally mistaken. In Protecting the Vulnerable, he presents a comprehensive theory of responsibility based on the concept of vulnerability. Since the range of people vulnerable to our actions or choices extends beyond those to whom we have made specific commitments (promises, vows, contracts), we must recognize a much more extensive network of obligations and moral claims. State welfare services, for example, are morally on a par with the services we render to family and friends. The same principle widens our international, intergenerational, and interpersonal responsibilities as well as our duties toward animals and natural environments. This book, written with keen intelligence and unfailing common sense, opens up new perspectives on issues central to public policy and of critical concern to philosophers and social scientists as well as to politicians, lawyers and social workers.