On Helping One's Neighbor

Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Bharat Ranganathan, Omaha) Ranganathan, Bharat (University of Nebraska

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Exploring what he calls 'the moral horror that is severe poverty,' Bharat Ranganathan develops a demanding account of the obligations that affluent people have to assist severely impoverished people. He argues that this is an immediate ethical as much as a social or structural imperative. Noting that developmental economists and moral and political philosophers have focused on wealth inequalities in increasingly sophisticated ways, Ranganathan observes that - within religious ethics - normative issues around severe poverty have nevertheless received insufficient attention. Bringing together general moral, religious, and philosophical principles with particular economic, social, and political realities, and engaging constructively with the writings of John Rawls and Peter Singer, this passionately argued book boldly challenges deleterious trends within ethics by unpacking, in a much more systematic way than hitherto, the pressing dilemmas around acute impoverishment. It will find an eager readership among scholars of religion, ethics, developmental studies, and theology.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-03-14
Mått146 x 222 x 19 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
Antal sidor232
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009428217

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Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations 1. Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others; 2. Universalism and Relativism, Minimalism and Maximalism; 3. Institutions, Severe Poverty, and the Obligations of Affluence; 4. On Helping One's Neighbor; 5. Moral Demandingness and Obligations to Special Relations and Self; Conclusion; Coda; Appendix I. The Relationship among Basic, Human, and Moral Rights; Appendix II. Dignity, Indeterminateness of Sense, and Human Rights; Bibliography; Index.

'The topic is often raised by religious ethicists but has rarely been treated with this amount of depth or focus. Bharat Ranganathan has produced an outstanding book on the subject, one of great importance that will provoke further conversations on the moral obligations of the affluent to those living in extreme poverty.' Nichole M. Flores, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia