Protecting the Vulnerable: A Re-Analysis of Our Social Responsibilities

by Robert E. Goodin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226302997
• ISBN13: 9780226302997
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"