4. The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrooke’s Problem

David Braybrooke argues that meeting people’s needs ought to be the primary goal of social policy. But he then faces the problem of how to deal with the fact that our most pressing needs, needs to be kept alive with resource-draining medical technology, threaten to exhaust our resources for meeting all other needs. I consider several solutions to this problem, eventually suggesting that the need to be kept alive is no different in kind from needs to fulfill various projects, and that needs may have a structure similar to rights, with people’s legitimate needs serving as constraints on each other’s entitlements to resources. This affords a set of axioms constraining possible needs. Further, if, as Braybrooke thinks, needs are created by communities approving projects, so that the means to prosecute the projects then come to count as needs, then communities are obliged to approve only projects that are co-feasible given the world’s finite resources. The result is that it can be legitimate not to funnel resources towards endless life-prolongation projects

Shaw, William H

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Diskurusus Kebijakan Publik Model Incremental

Salah satu kesulitan dalam kebijakan publik adalah efisiensi waktu, dimanakebijakan akan selalu melibatkan waktu, tenaga dan materi yang cukup panjang. Artikel inibertujuan untuk memberikan beberapa perspektif untuk medeskripsikan usahapembuatan kebijakan publik dengan sederhana. Melalui pendekatan inkremental, artikelyang didasarkan pada studi pustaka ini mencoba mengurai berbagai persepektif tentangkebijakan publik model inkremental. Maka, artikel ini menemukan bahwa modelInkremental dapat dinyatakan sebagai sebuah model kebijakan yang dilakukan denganmendesain ulang kebijakan yang ada namun masih dalam koridor rangka utama kebijakanasalnya. Model Inkremental dilakukan untuk menghadapi masalah yang membutuhkanpenanganan dengan waktu yang cukup singkat. Tantangannya adalah dalam modelkebijakan ini, seringkali membutuhkan ketelitian aktor kebijakan dan pilihan-pilihanalternatif yang tidak mudah

Newsletter: The Center for Professional Ethics, Fall 1991

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Review of books by Vinter & Kish and Lauffer

During a decade of great changes in the organization and management of human service organizations, these authors have attempted to explain the changes that are occurring and offer guidance for how to deal with them for harassed and overworked human services managers and students

Mill’s Moral Standard

A book chapter (about 7,000 words, plus references) on the interpretation of Mill’s criterion of right and wrong, with particular attention to act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and sanction utilitarianism. Along the way, major topics include Mill’s thoughts on liberalism, supererogation, the connection between wrongness and punishment, and breaking rules when doing so will produce more happiness than complying with them will

Monitor Newsletter February 14, 1983

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Monitor Newsletter May 03, 1982

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