When Famine Returns - McCormick, Peter
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Does everyone have a moral obligation to aid famine victims? Or do all persons have more basic ethical
responsibility continually to assist such victims substantially, even "beyond the call of moral duty?" If so, then
why? And how?
Making use of detailed case studies from the Great Bengal Famines of the 1940s to the recurring Ethiopian
famines of the 1970s and 1980s and the Sudanese famines of today, Peter McCormick argues that famine is in
part a philosophical issue. In the personal and tentative style of the short, classic reflective essay rather than in
the impersonal…mehr

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Does everyone have a moral obligation to aid famine victims? Or do all persons have more basic ethical
responsibility continually to assist such victims substantially, even "beyond the call of moral duty?" If so, then
why? And how?
Making use of detailed case studies from the Great Bengal Famines of the 1940s to the recurring Ethiopian
famines of the 1970s and 1980s and the Sudanese famines of today, Peter McCormick argues that famine is in
part a philosophical issue. In the personal and tentative style of the short, classic reflective essay rather than in
the impersonal style of the contemporary extended philosophical monograph, he proposes that "the problem of
famine" cannot be understood as exclusively an economic or political problem. Rather, comprehending famine
properly raises at least one quite fundamental ethical issue. For the basic ethical significance of famine is that
seriously considering whether and just how one ought continually to assist the numberless victims of famine
challenges our previous understandings of what it is both to be a person and to live fully, and rightly, the life of a
person.
Autorenporträt
Peter McCormick (1940) is, since 1999, Prince Franz-Josef II and
Princess Gina Professor of Philosophy at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of
Liechtenstein. A former Humboldt Scholar in Germany, American Fulbright Scholar in Paris, Canadian Killam
Scholar, and Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, he holds a Doctorat d'Etat from the
University of Pars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Bisherige Forschungsschwerpunkte des Autors:
- Modernitiy, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art
- Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics
- Heidegger and the Language of the World