Distant strangers: ethics, psychology, and global poverty
What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hoo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led philosophers astray. She argues that there are serious limits to what can be demanded of ordinary human beings, but this does not mean we must abandon the moral imperative to reduce poverty. Drawing on findings from behavioral economics and psychology, she shows how we can motivate better-off people to lessen poverty without demanding unrealistic levels of moral virtue. Lichtenberg argues convincingly that this approach is not only practically, but morally, appropriate. -- Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Preface -- Introduction -- Entanglement and the claims of mere humanity -- Duties and rights, charity and justice -- "Negative" and "positive" duties -- Oughts and cans -- Why people do what others do - and why that's not so bad -- Whose poor? / who's poor? : deprivation within and across borders -- Hopefully helping: the perils of giving -- On motives and morality -- Conclusion: Morality for mere mortals -- Works cited -- Index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 276 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521763318 9780521124621 |
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Preface page ix
ı Introduction I
2 Entanglements and the claims of mere humanity 19
3 Duties and rights, charity and justice 47
4 “Negative” and “positive” duties 73
5 Oughts and cans 97
6 Why people do what others do — and why that’s not so bad 122
7 Whose poor?/who’s poor?: deprivation within and across
borders 150
8 Hopefully helping: the perils of giving 177
9 On motives and morality 206
10 Conclusion: morality for mere mortals 235
Works cited 253
Index 272
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