Responding to Global Poverty: Harm, Responsibility, and Agency

ISBN-13: 9781108729987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 271 str.

Christian Barry; Gerhard Verland

Opis

This book explores whether affluent people in the developed world have stringent responsibilities to help fight poverty abroad.

Recenzje

'… the book is invaluable in bringing together often disconnected debates from the philosophy of action, global justice, the philosophy of law and practical ethics, helping the reader to comprehend the conceptual building blocks and moral structure of the pressing problem of global poverty. In their effort to offer a coherent conceptual framework, the authors appear at times as trying to fit the various strands of the debate into a single straightjacket. In conclusion, the book will repay careful reading by anyone interested in understanding the complexity of global poverty, in particular advanced undergraduate and graduate students of the social sciences and philosophy, as well as policy makers and those working in the field who are interested in a more sophisticated account.' George Pavlakos, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

1. Introduction: assistance-based and contribution-based responsibilities to address global poverty; Part I. Assistance-Based Responsibilities: 2. Assistance-based responsibilities; 3. The implications of failing to assist; 4. Assistance-based responsibilities in the real world; Part II. Contribution-Based Responsibilities: 5. The doing, allowing and enabling distinction; 6. Giving rise to cost and the doing, allowing and enabling distinction; 7. The feasible alternatives thesis: Pogge on contribution-based responsibilities to the poor; 8. Contribution-based responsibilities and trade; Part III. Implications of Contribution: 9. The implications of contributing to global poverty; 10. Assuming responsibility for harm; 11. Contribution-based responsibilities and overdetermination.