Biblical Social Welfare Legislation
Protected Classes and Provisions for Persons in Need
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20384656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | RICHARD H HIERS (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 49 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0748-0814 • E-ISSN: 2163-3088 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1051395 |
| OpenAlex | W2042928241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
Objectivists will often hear a question such as: “What will be done about the poor or the handicapped in a free society?” The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are “their brother's keepers” and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others. The questioner is ignoring or evading the basic premises of Objectivist ethics and is attempting to switch the discussion onto his own collectivist base. Observe that he does not ask: “Should anything be done?” but “What will be done?”—as if the collectivist premise had been tacitly accepted and all that remains is a discussion of the means to implement it
Collectivism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Individualism · Law and economics · Legislation · Misfortune · Objectivism · Political science · Premise · Sociology · Welfare · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Freedom and Discrimination · Social Psychology
Support for the American welfare state
The broken covenant
Habits of the heart
Wealth and Poverty in the Old Testament
Islam, Law, and Custom
Justice, Virtue, and Law
Of Covenants Ancient and New
Biblical Religion and American Politics
Covenant and Contract
Biblical Law and Hermeneutics
Biblical Roots of Modern Consumer Credit Law
Reflections on "Universal Absolutes"
Identity, Identification, and Imitation
Modern Liberal Rights Theory and Jewish Law
Who Counts Morally
Transfer of Property by Inheritance and Bequest in Biblical Law and Tradition
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
The Justice of the Greeks
Friends By Unrighteous Mammon
Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient near East
An Outline of Biblical Theology
The Bible Vote
Studies in Biblical Law
Of Plymouth Plantation
Statism in Plymouth Colony
Whose Welfare? AFDC and Elite Politics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2014 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |