Project Gutenberg 2006-06-16 Public domain in the USA. 181 Sumner, William Graham 1840 1910 What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Produced by Jeff G., Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other" by William Graham Sumner is a sociopolitical treatise written in the late 19th century. The work critically examines the interactions and responsibilities between different social classes, specifically addressing the notion of duty among the rich and poor in society. Sumner aims to challenge the prevailing sentiments of his time regarding wealth redistribution and the perceived obligations of the affluent to support the less fortunate. The opening of the text sets the stage for an exploration of the social problems that plague society, particularly the confusion surrounding class definitions and rights. Sumner begins by interrogating who has the right to demand solutions for societal issues, establishing a dichotomy between the prosperous and those less fortunate. He critiques the notion that the wealthy owe their comforts to the labor of the poor, suggesting instead that individuals must take responsibility for their own lives. The introduction foreshadows a discourse on economic principles, individual responsibility, and the potential pitfalls of class-based sentiments and policies, which will be further dissected in the subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Economics Social ethics HN Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Economics Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Sociology 234101 230050 2024-09-08T08:16:05.845755 2023-09-08T10:16:44.030097 text/html text/html 229006 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 80202 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 152583 2024-09-08T08:16:11.311724 application/epub+zip 153990 2024-09-08T08:16:07.626739 application/epub+zip 153989 2024-09-08T08:16:06.596759 application/epub+zip 312906 2024-09-08T08:16:13.998729 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291460 2024-09-08T08:16:10.544789 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291372 2022-09-09T04:41:56.246508 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 209934 209840 2024-09-08T08:16:05.370757 2023-09-08T10:16:43.614096 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 209842 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 76065 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 209831 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 76032 2006-06-16T10:53:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20645 2024-09-08T08:16:14.135711 application/rdf+xml 15967 2024-09-08T08:16:06.949762 image/jpeg 3751 2024-09-08T08:16:06.773734 image/jpeg 145911 2024-09-08T08:16:05.865763 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia