When Famine Returns
Ethics, Identity, and the Deep Pathos of Things
(Sprache: Englisch)
Does everyone have a moral obligation to aid famine victims? Or do all persons have more basic ethicalresponsibility continually to assist such victims substantially, even "beyond the call of moral duty?" If so, then why? And how?Making use of detailed case...
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Does everyone have a moral obligation to aid famine victims? Or do all persons have more basic ethicalresponsibility continually to assist such victims substantially, even "beyond the call of moral duty?" If so, then why? And how?Making use of detailed case studies from the Great Bengal Famines of the 1940s to the recurring Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 1980s and the Sudanese famines of today, Peter McCormick argues that famine is in part a philosophical issue. In the personal and tentative style of the short, classic reflective essay rather than in the impersonal style of the contemporary extended philosophical monograph, he proposes that "the problem of famine" cannot be understood as exclusively an economic or political problem. Rather, comprehending famine properly raises at least one quite fundamental ethical issue. For the basic ethical significance of famine is that seriously considering whether and just how one ought continually to assist the numberless victims of famine challenges our previous understandings of what it is both to be a person and to live fully, and rightly, the life of a person.
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- Autor: Peter McCormick
- 2003, VIII, 167 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Universitätsverlag Winter
- ISBN-10: 3825311236
- ISBN-13: 9783825311230
Sprache:
Englisch
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