PAF 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Negative Income Tax, Negative Liberty, Positive Liberty
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Welfare: stone talks about welfare as collective efforts to meet needs, need is a strong political claim, needs are often hard to distinguish from wants, advocates for their own or others" needs try to make them seem objective. Types of needs: material v. symbolic, items have symbolic and cultural meanings. Intrinsic v. instrumental: there are some needs that allow us to achieve future goals, volatility v. security, will we be able to meet the same needs tomorrow, quantity v. quality, some needs are not easily measurable. Individual v. relational needs: people need relationships with others and community, absolute v. relative, policies address absolute need, people tend to be concerned with relative need. Need in the polis: politics is concerned with the arbitration of competing claims of need, validating claims, social welfare, trade, budgeting, military, public needs, public goods, culture and dignity needs, communal security.
