Welfare Meaning And Worth

Author : Aaron Smuts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131544190X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare, Meaning, and Worth written by Aaron Smuts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare, Meaning, and Worth argues that there is more to what makes a life worth living than welfare, and that a good life does not consist of what is merely good for the one who lives it. Smuts defends an objective list theory that states that the notion of worth captures matters of importance for which no plausible theory of welfare can account. He puts forth that lives worth living are net high in various objective goods, including pleasure, meaning, knowledge, and loving relationships. The first part of the book presents a theory of worth, a mental statist account of welfare, and an objectivist theory of meaning. The second part explores the implications for moral theory, the popularity of painful art, and the viability of pessimism about the human condition. This book offers an original exploration of worth as a combination of welfare and meaning that will be of interest to philosophers and ethicists who work on issues in well-being and positive psychology.

Author : Noel W Timms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429878281
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking About Welfare written by Noel W Timms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Phil Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440845352
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Cost of Welfare written by Phil Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the welfare system failing to work for so many people? This book examines the problems with the current welfare system and proposes reforms to create a smarter, smaller system that helps people improve their lives through rewarding work. Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipient having to limit their job efforts for fear of losing government assistance. The book examines all major U.S. welfare systems, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, SNAP, Medicaid, and others. The authors begin by exploring the nation's basic poverty issues and examining the relationship between work and happiness. Next, they zero in on specific welfare programs, reporting both on their dollar costs and on the ways that they fail enrollees. The book then concludes with strategies for addressing the shortcomings of the current U.S. welfare system. This book is appropriate for readers interested in public policy, government programs, welfare, and cultural shifts in America. It adds a new perspective to the existing body of welfare scholarship by systematically assessing the impact of welfare on the receivers themselves.

Author : Anthony Forder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429883021
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories of Welfare written by Anthony Forder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984 Theories of Welfare looks at theories of social administration developed in different social science disciplines. The book ranges widely and gives concise coverage to the historical and intellectual background in which the theory emerged, the implicit or explicit value assumptions, and account of the most important theoretical concepts and the major criticisms of them, an indication of the relevance to social administration and a guide to further reading.

Author : John E. Tropman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Values and Social Welfare written by John E. Tropman and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1989 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover title: American values & social welfare.

Author : Professor Noel W Timms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136877371
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Social Welfare written by Professor Noel W Timms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Arthur Cecil Pigou
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412836670
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Welfare written by Arthur Cecil Pigou and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mara van der Lugt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226148
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Matters written by Mara van der Lugt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope. Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

Author : Richard Hugman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349267473
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare and Social Value written by Richard Hugman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in ideas about social welfare have required caring professions to adapt their practices in ways which have challenged their underlying values and their relationships with service users. Focusing on nursing, remedial therapy and social work, this book examines core social values expressed through policy. The implications of these ideas for the caring professions in social welfare are explored, as are important questions about the use of industrial and commercial metaphors in health and human services.

Author : Bernice Q. Madison
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780709902225
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Social Policy written by Bernice Q. Madison and published by London : Croom Helm ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: