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The Moral Demands of Affluence

by Garrett Cullity

  • Paperback
  • 300 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

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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, indirectly as well as directly. But the number of needy people in the world is enormous, and their need is very great. Once we start to recognize requirements to help them, when is it morally acceptable to stop? Cullity answers this question in Part II. Examining the nature of beneficence, he argues that its requirements only make sense on the assumption that many of the interests we share in common-rich and poor alike-are interests it is not wrong to pursue.
The Moral Demands of Affluence and The Moral Demands of Affluence
The Moral Demands of AffluenceThe Moral Demands of Affluence

  • Author

    Garrett Cullity

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 2006

  • Weight

    427g

  • Page Count

    300

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.2 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199204151

  • ISBN-10

    0199204152

  • Eden Code

    4563461

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