Moral Demands of Affluence

Name: Moral Demands of Affluence
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ISBN: 9780199204151

ISBN-10: 0199204152

ISBN-13: 9780199204151

Edition: 2006

Authors: Garrett Cullity

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How much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? on any credible moral outlook, other people's pressing need for assistance can ground moral requirements on us to help them---requirements of beneficence. How far do those requirements extend? One way to think about this is by means of a simple analogy: an analogy between joining in efforts to help people at a distance and rescuing a needy person yourself, directly. Part I of Garrett Cullity's book examines this analogy. in some ways, the analogy is not only simple, but politically and metaphysically simplistic. However, it contains an important truth: we are morally required to help other people,…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



Demands



The Life-Saving Analogy



An Argument from Beneficence



Objections to Aid



Saving Lives



The Extreme Demand



Problems of Demandingness



Limits



Impartiality, Fairness, and Beneficence



The Rejection of the Extreme Demand



Permission



Requirement



Overview



Poverty and Aid



The Cost of Saving a Life


Notes


References


Index