Need, Care and Obligation

All humans experience needs. At times needs cut deep, inhibiting persons’ abilities to act as agents in the world, to live in distinctly human ways, or to achieve life goals of significance to them. In considering such potentialities, several questions arise: Are any needs morally important, meaning that they operate as morally relevant details of a situation? What is the correct moral stance to take with regard to situations of need? Are moral agents ever required to tend to others’ well-being by meeting their needs? What justification or foundation, if any, can be given for requiring moral agents to respond to others’ needs?

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Work Title Need, Care and Obligation
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Open Access
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  1. Sarah Clark Miller
Keyword
  1. need
  2. care ethics
  3. care
  4. obligation
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Work Type Article
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246100009188
Deposited October 15, 2019

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