Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

by Judith Lichtenberg

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052112462X

ISBN13:9780521124621

Release Date:December 2013

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:285 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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