Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility.(Review) (book reviews)

Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. By David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 222p. $49.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

It is surely better to teach a person to fish than to give her a fish, but what should we do if she is a mother who cannot or will not fish? At its barest essence, that is the conundrum this excellent book addresses. It inaugurates the series "For and Against," in which "two philosophers, in opposition on some moral, social, or political issue, will state and defend their positions on the issue in as direct ...

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