Books by David Braybrooke

It is not an airtight view, but it is also not the least plausible view.  Imagine a “basic needs” argument that suggests, a’ la David Braybrooke , that individuals truly have positive rights to a certain degree of sustenance, health care, shelter, and so on.  Yet above that basic needs level, individuals don’t have positive rights to much of anything at all.  They are left to fend for themselves, though of course they will benefit from social cooperation.  After all, positive rights have to stop...

3. A modest bundle of guaranteed coverage and services.  I am very influenced by David Braybrooke’s book on meeting basic needs .  Yet for me basic needs truly are basic and do not involve cable TV or small probability chances of delaying death from prostate cancer.