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Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?
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Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?
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Peter Singer walks listeners through one of his most provocative philosophical arguments -- that affluent individuals must acknowledge their moral obligation to relieve the unnecessary death and suffering of the poor. His sinuous reasoning starts with the simple case of a bystander coming upon a child drowning in a pond with no one else around. Should the bystander leave the child to drown, or must he stay and save the child? Most people intuitively recognize a duty to rescue the child. Singer argues from analogy that there is “no morally relevant difference between the drowning child situation and the situation of the affluent with regard to children dying of avoidable poverty related causes.”Singer plays this scenario out in a variety of ways, and responds to counter-arguments that have been deployed against it over the years. Is there a stronger moral obligation to a child encountered in the flesh than to a faceless child in a distant place? There’s psychological evidence that people tend to donate more money when they can match their aid to a face, but the fact that we have “an evolved response to an individual in need” doesn’t justify this as normative moral theory, says Singer.
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Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Politics
Global Politics
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