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• Title:
  The limits of moral responsibility for global poverty
• Creator:
  Kwarciński, Tomasz
• Contributor:
  Cracow University of Economics, Faculty of Public Economy and Administration, Department of Philosophy;
  tomasz.kwarcinski@uek.krakow.pl
• Description:
  Most people, especially in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, suffer and die from lack of food, shelter, and medical care, whereas other people in rich countries are extremely well-off. Because of the globalization process neither individuals nor governments can claim to be unaware of what is happening in the Third World. In this paper I defend the claim that, since we are living in a “global village”, we have greater moral responsibility for poverty. Thus, our moral responsibility is less limited than it usually seems to be. However, we do not have to be extremely impartial, which is recommended by utilitarianism (Garrett Hardin, Peter Singer), concentrating only on the consequences of action and its utility (agent-neutral evaluation). Yet, what we can include in our moral evaluation of poverty are human rights and an individual point of view, which are defended by Amartya Sen’s capability approach and Thomist framework (agent-relative evaluation).;
  Publication of English-language versions of the volumes of the "Annales. Ethics in Economic Life" financed through contract no. 501/1/P-DUN/2017 from the funds of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education devoted to the promotion of scholarship.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.02.26;
  2017
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Annales. Ethics in Economic Life;6;
  20
• Subject:
  global poverty;
  moral responsibility;
  utilitarianism;
  capability approach;
  I39
• Identifier:
  1899-2226;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26879 ;
  2353-4869;
  10.18778/1899-2226.20.6.10
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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