Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

by Judith Lichtenberg

Book Overview

What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052112462X
• ISBN13: 9780521124621
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"