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Deprivation and Freedom - A Philosophical Enquiry (Paperback)
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Deprivation and Freedom - A Philosophical Enquiry (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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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 organize our
societies in the future. The book develops a comprehensive yet
accessible account of human freedom, which shows how the ability to
realise our freedom is partly definitive of freedom itself. That
account conclusively illustrates how many deprivations represent
remediable inequalities of important and very basic human freedoms,
posing the question as to why societies continue to do so little
about them. In answering that question, Richard J. Hull shows how
the idea of social exclusion is misleading and, instead, tackles
the far more pertinent and challenging issue of societies' failure
to include.The moral seriousness of non-inclusion, the failure to
provide for freedom, is evaluated via critical discussion of a
variety of central themes and distinctions in ethical and political
theory. The author shows how such themes and distinctions comprise
a framework for evaluating a raft of social issues, in turn
providing a unique resource for students of moral, political and
applied philosophy. The book concludes with an innovative,
challenging and effective combination of analytic and continental
styles, so to address the critical question of how we might
actually motivate constructive social change. In doing so, it shows
how a variety of approaches can work successfully together to
provide an emphatic case for greater social inclusion. Deprivation
and Freedom shows how even fairly modest claims about social
provision illustrate that we should be doing a lot more about
social deprivation than we are now. It should be of interest to
anyone who is concerned with questions about the type of society in
which they live, what it says about us to continue as we are -- and
how we might motivate realistically achievable social change.
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