Deen K. Chatterjee (ed.)

The Ethics of Assistance

Morality and the Distant Needy
Herausgeber: Chatterjee, Deen K.; Maclean, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume present the latest beliefs of some leading contemporary moral and political philosophers on the issue of assisting the foreign poor. Topics focus around the themes of political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. This timely volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theory, international law and development economics, as well as policy makers, aid agency workers, and general readers interested in the topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521527422
• ISBN-10: 0521527422
• Artikelnr.: 21496228

Autorenporträt

Deen K. Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His areas of specialization are political philosophy, applied ethics, and philosophy of religion and culture. He is co-editor of Globalization, Development and Democracy (2003), and Ethics and Foreign Intervention (Cambridge, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction Deen K. Chatterjee
Part I. The Ethics of Distance: 2. Outsiders: our obligation to those beyond our borders Peter Singer
3. Moral limits on the demands of beneficence Richard J. Arneson
4. The new problem of distance in morality F. M. Kamm
5. Absence and the unfond heart: why people are less giving than they might be Judith Lichtenberg
Part II. Communities and Obligations: 6. Moral closeness and world community Richard W. Miller
7. National responsibility and international justice David Miller
Part III. The Law of Peoples: 8. Women and theories of global justice: our need for new paradigms Martha Nussbaum
9. Human rights as foreign policy imperatives Erin Kelly
10. Human rights and the law of peoples Charles R. Beitz
Part IV. Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Reforms: 11. Thickening convergence: human rights and cultural diversity Henry Shue
12. Global justice: whose obligations? Onora O'Neill
13. 'Assisting' the global poor Thomas W. Pogge.