Being Good in a World of Need

by Larry S Temkin

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?

This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world's foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, and the dominant philosophical positions of Peter Singer and Effective Altruism. Filled with keen analysis and insightful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192849972
• ISBN13: 9780192849977
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"