Abstract: This paper is one of the classic literature of Titmuss, the founder of social policy in Britain and the world and the founder of morden social welfare theory. How to construct a welfare state and welfare society is the biggest political issue faced by governments all over the world. Against the reality of American and British social welfare privatization and marketization, especially the social welfare misinterpreted as “public burden”, Titmuss, from the international welfare perspective, used the cases such as doctors, teachers and social workers for the first time to define the welfare state and welfare social concept, and proposed the concept of “community responsibility” from the principle of universal and selective social services based on the analytical framework of citizens' due social rights. From the perspective of modern social welfare philosophy and welfare politics, he deeply analyzed and criticized the principle of selective social service represented by asset review with the historical experience and lessons of British social welfare as evidence. He pointed out for the first time that the real challenges faced by the British and European welfare systems in the 1960s were as follows: How to provide positive differentiated and differentiated services under the principle of universal social service? The author argues that if there is no such infrastructure of welfare resources and values framework, the concept of “welfare society” cannot be defined and how to move towards a “welfare society” cannot be discussed.

Key words: Titmuss’s philosophy of welfare, welfare state, welfare society, universal and selective social services, good life