Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Responding to Global Poverty

Harm, Responsibility, and Agency

Av Christian Barry, Gerhard Øverland

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Beskrivning

This book explores the nature of moral responsibilities of affluent individuals in the developed world, addressing global poverty and arguments that philosophers have offered for having these responsibilities. The first type of argument grounds responsibilities in the ability to avert serious suffering by taking on some cost. The second argument seeks to ground responsibilities in the fact that the affluent are contributing to such poverty. The authors criticise many of the claims advanced by those who seek to ground stringent responsibilities to the poor by invoking these two types of arguments. It does not follow from this that the affluent are meeting responsibilities to the poor. The book argues that while people are not ordinarily required to make large sacrifices in assisting others in severe need, they are required to incur moderate costs to do so. If the affluent fail consistently to meet standards, this fact can substantially increase the costs they are required to bear in order to address it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2016-11-10
Mått: 158 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt: 550 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107031470

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Christian Barry is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. His research focuses on closing the gap between theory and practice in international justice. He previously worked at the United Nations Development Programme and at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. His recent work includes International Trade and Labour Standards: A Proposal for Linkage (with Sanjay Reddy, 2008), and articles in Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, the Review of International Studies, International Affairs, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Gerhard Øverland (1964–2014) was Professor of Philosophy at Universitetet i Oslo. He published widely in moral theory and philosophy of war, including articles in Ethics, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Bioethics, and the European Journal of Philosophy.

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'In sum, this book has great value as an overview of the global justice literature and as a rigorous exposition of the key categories involved in doing, allowing, and enabling harm. Students of the field or, for that matter, nonstudents who want to know what political theory has to offer on the subject of global poverty, will find Responding to Global Poverty invaluable; no better summary of what analytical political theory has to offer is available.' Chris Brown, Ethics and International Affairs

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