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Responding to global poverty : harm, responsibility, and agency /
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 ability to avert serious suffering...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Auteurs principaux: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, united Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Assistance-based and contribution-based responsibilities to address global poverty
- part 1. Assistance-based Responsibilities. Assistance-based responsibilities ; The implications of failing to assist ; Assistance-based responsibilities in the real world
- part 2. Contribution-based Responsibilities. The doing, allowing, and enabling distinction ; Giving rise to cost and the doing, allowing, and enabling distinction ; The feasible alternatives thesis: Pogge on contribution-based responsibilities to the poor
- part 3. Implications of Contribution. Contribution-based responsibilities and trade ; The implications of contributing to global poverty ; Assuming responsibility for harm ; Contribution-based responsibilities and overdetermination.