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Author Barry, Christian, author.

Title Responding to global poverty : harm, responsibility, and agency / Christian Barry, Australian National University, Canberra ; Gerhard Ă˜verland, University of Oslo, Oslo
Published Cambridge, united Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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 by taking on some cost. The second argument seeks to ground responsibilities in the fact that the affluent are contributing to such poverty. The authors criticise many of the claims advanced by those who seek to ground stringent responsibilities to the poor by invoking these two types of arguments. It does not follow from this that the affluent are meeting responsibilities to the poor. The book argues that while people are not ordinarily required to make large sacrifices in assisting others in severe need, they are required to incur moderate costs to do so. If the affluent fail consistently to meet standards, this fact can substantially increase the costs they require to bear to address it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-255) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (CambridgeCore platform, viewed March 15, 2017)
Subject Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Humanitarianism.
Economic assistance.
assistance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Economic assistance
Humanitarianism
Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Ă˜verland, Gerhard, author
ISBN 9781139381758
113938175X
9781108114332
1108114334