The Needs of Strangers

by Michael Ignatieff (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $17.90

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.36

  An examination of the needs of human beings from a philosophical viewpoint. The book examines the long-term failure of religions and political thought to give a sense of community which creates a society. The ideas of St Augustine, Bosch, Boswell ane Simone Weil are explored. Michael Ignatieff also wrote A Just Measure of Pain , Wealth and Virtue and A Russian Album .