Welfare State Versus Welfare Society?
作者:
ANTHONY SKILLEN,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Philosophy
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 3-17
ISSN:0264-3758
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1985.tb00015.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThe welfare state is not just a system of personal insurance but an expression of community, of concern for our fellows. It places some things beyond the question of purchasing power. Yet its structures are often criticised as subverting personal and social cares and responsibilities. Arguably there is a ‘dialectic of self‐destruction’ here, a tendency for the institution to undermine its own support. At the same time this problem is inherent in the capitalist state itself, as is brought out by a study of the philosophers of ‘civil society’ from Mandeville to Greèn. It is schematically argued that the welfare state needs reconstructing as an articulation rather than a substitute for ‘community’. Implications for the class, gender and age structures of societ
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