moral entitlement

The Entitlement-Free Child: Raising Confident and Responsible Kids in a "Me, Mine, Now!" Culture
$14.99
The author offers several good options on how to proceed when confronted with various situations upon raising a child at various ages. The best feature is that both the "entitled" and "entitlement free" perspectives are shown, to think about where you, or a child you are dealing with, may be coming from.

This is by no means an academic study on the matter, and the suggestions should be taken as suggestions, and with a grain of salt.

One particular glaring error in avoiding instilling a sense of entitlement in children is the "birthday party" section, in which the author suggests asking that gifts for your child be "books only." This sends an utterly wrong message. It is horribly rude to tell guests what to give -- all gifts are optional and one should NEVER make any such suggestion. This suggestion would tell a child that it is okay to preemptively tell others what to give, because -- apparently -- the honoree is (all together...) ENTITLED to a gift(!)

Yes, you definitely need a grain of salt with this book, but it does do a good job in describing perspectives which you or other people may have in various situations.

Territorial Rights (Law and Philosophy Library)
$139.00
Liberal defences of nationalism, prevalent since the mid-1980¡Çs, have largely neglected the fact that nationalism is primarily about land. Territorial Rights examines the generic types of territorial claims customarily put forward by national groups as justification for their territorial demands, within the framework of what has come to be known as ¡Æliberal nationalism¡Ç. "When it appeared in 2005, Territorial Rights filled a void in liberal nationalist theory. In this second edition, Meisels carries her subtle and systematic thinking on the topic further, in part by deftly and constructively responding to the literature that the first edition spawned."
Allen Buchanan, Duke University, USA "The question of who is entitled to exercise jurisdiction over which land is of fundamental theoretical and practical importance.? It has, however, been neglected by contemporary political philosophers.? In her thoughtful and stimulating work, Territorial Rights, Tamar Meisels provides a much needed analysis of the normative issues involved.??Territorial Rights?is a comprehensive, rigorous and illuminating analysis.? It provides both an evaluation of competing philosophical perspectives and a defence of a liberal nationalist perspective on territory.? In doing so it includes instructive discussions of the implications of Locke's political thought for territorial rights, and the continuing relevance of historic injustices.? It would be of interest to anyone interested in questions of territorial rights (and indeed anyone interested in issues of global justice more generally)."
Simon Caney, Magdalen College, Oxford, UK "Even the most cursory reading, of?the burgeoning literature on global distributive justice and just war, reveals?a growing appreciation of the foundational role that territorial rights must play in constructing a coherent theory of what nations owe to one another. Tamar Meisels provides us with a challenging, comprehensive,?and highly original analysis of how such rights are constituted and the conditions under which they can be justified. Those, like myself,?who have advanced a purely individualistic view of the basis of territorial rights, will have to do some serious grappling with her many powerful arguments if they are successfully to sustain that view."
Hillel Steiner FBA, University of Manchester, UK

Antinomies of generosity [An article from: Geoforum]
$7.95
This digital document is a journal article from Geoforum, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The Indian Ocean Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 generated a wave of private donations from Western countries - a paradigmatic case of generosity. However, more than a year after, a number of evaluation studies conclude that post-tsunami aid has achieved ambivalent results and that recipients of aid felt excluded from the reconstruction process, reduced to passive observers. This paper argues that there is a link between the abundance of generosity and the practices of aid: the practices of gift giving after the tsunami have developed a humiliating force for those who were at the recipient end of the gift chain, because the marketing of Western generosity by media and aid agencies reinforced those affected by the tsunami as ''pure'' victims, as ''bare life'' - passive recipients devoid of their status as fellow citizens on this planet. In a second step, the paper discusses the meta-ethics of these practices of generosity, thinking about the ambivalences inherent in bridging distance in encountering the ''distant'' other in our aid practices. Various forms of virtue ethics reflect this emphasis on the generous person, while neglecting the perspective of the person in need, and therefore implicitly reproduce those asymmetries of gift giving. In contrast to these conceptions, I want to argue that we need to ground our duty to help distant sufferers in their moral entitlement to be aided. This requires a meta-ethical approach that seeks a combination of a theory of justice with virtue ethics.