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Routledge Revivals

Political Philosophy and Social Welfare

This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration.

Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the authors discuss such issues as the basis of the sense of stigma involved in the receipt of welfare benefits, the right of welfare and the concepts of community.

Political Philosophy and Social Welfare

Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provision

Raymond Plant, Harry Lesser and Peter Taylor-Gooby

First published in 1980
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1980 Raymond Plant, Harry Lesser and Peter Taylor-Gooby

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ISBN 0-203-09226-0 Master e-book ISBN

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Political philosophy and social welfare

The International Library of Welfare and Philosophy

General Editors

Professor Noel Timms
Professor of Social Work
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

David Watson
Department of Moral Philosophy
University of Glasgow

Political philosophy and social welfare

Essays on the normative basis of welfare provision

Raymond Plant BA, PhD, AKC
Professor of Politics, Southampton University

Harry Lesser BA, BPhil
Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester University

Peter Taylor-Gooby BA
Lecturer in Social Administration, University of Kent

First published in 1980
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
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London WC1E 7DD,
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Raymond Plant, Harry Lesser and Peter Taylor-Gooby 1980

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Plant, Raymond
Political philosophy and social welfare.(The international library of welfare and philosophy).
1. Public welfare 2. Social policyI. Title II. Lesser, HarryIII. Taylor-Gooby, Peter IV. Series
361 HV31 80 41279

ISBN 0-203-09226-0 Master e-book ISBN

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ISBN 0 7100 0631 4 Pbk

To
Nicholas, Matthew and Richard Plant,
Marcus Lesser and Joe Taylor-Gooby

Preface

This book was written while its three authors were lecturers at the University of Manchester. Raymond Plant and Harry Lesser were members of the Philosophy Department and Peter Taylor-Gooby a member of the Department of Social Administration. There has been a long tradition of co-operation between the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies in the University and the authors hope that this book makes a reasonable contribution to that tradition. Recently, co-operative work of this sort in Manchester has been fostered in a series of seminars held in the convivial surroundings of Hillel Steiners home, and the authors are grateful to Hillel and Miriam for providing an atmosphere so conducive to both work and enjoyment. Most of the chapters of the book were originally tried out as papers at this seminar and subjected to very searching criticisms. Of course, the authors are responsible for their failure to respond more adequately to the points that were argued against them.

Raymond Plant also owes a special debt to David Braybrooke of Dalhousie University, a man with considerable experience of working in these fields, with whom he discussed the notion of need at some length on two of Professor Braybrookes visits to Manchester.

The book falls into three parts, although there is a central theme running through the whole volume. The first part, after an introductory chapter on the role of political philosophy in debates about social policy, is devoted to an extensive discussion of the concept of need and its relation to wants and desires. The second part deals with the way needs are (or are not) expressed through political and social processes. The final part deals with the role of community in thinking about welfare.

Acknowledgments

Although the book was written as a co-operative enterprise, individual chapters are the responsibility of particular authors. Raymond Plant wrote chapters .

Raymond Plant would like to thank Geraint Parry and W.E.Connolly for their comments on was first given as a paper to a conference of libertarian scholars held in Oxford at Easter 1979. He would particularly like to thank F.von Hayek, Max Hartwell, Stanislav Andreski and John Gray for their vigorous response to a paper which was perhaps not altogether welcome.

Political philosophy and social welfare

Narrowly defined, social administration is the study of the development, structure and practices of the social services. Broadly defined, it is an attempt to apply social scienceincluding philosophyto the analysis and solution of a changing range of social problems. It must be taught in both of these senses if it is to be of any value.

[Donnison, 1961]

This book attempts to apply some of the insights derived from political philosophy to the study of social welfare. Political philosophy has traditionally been concerned with questions of citizenship, rights, duties, forms of government, political obligation and the nature of civil society rather than issues of need, of social service provision and of state responsibility for the welfare of the community. Yet perhaps the most striking feature of presentday society is the massive political and economic weight of the state, and its growth has been one of the most significant trends in recent history. The most important single aspect, whether measured by expenditure, by number of personnel or by volume of legislation, and the most impressive continuing growth area of the state, is its social welfare activities. The study of these activities may legitimately claim a place on the agenda of political philosophy.

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