Basic human needs: abstraction, indeterminacy and the political account of need

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (7):1140-1162 (2023)
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Needs matter; but not all needs do. Needs range from the urgent and dire to the insignificant and even trivial. Given this, a central task for the needs theorist is to give some account of which ne...

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