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Economic assistance - Developing countries - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Basic needs - Developing countries - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects.

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Cosmopolitanism. --- Human rights. --- Poverty --- Social justice. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Cosmopolitanism --- Human rights --- Social justice --- Equality --- Justice --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Political science --- Internationalism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Law and legislation --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects.

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Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. The nature of human rights and their corresponding duties is examined, as is the theoretical standing of the social, economic and cultural rights. The authors largely agree in concluding that there is a human right to be free from poverty and that this right is massively violated by the present world economy which creates huge unfair imbalances in income and wealth among and within countries. This searing indictment of the status quo is all the more powerful as the authors endorsing it exemplify diverse philosophical methods and moral traditions and also highlight different aspects of poverty and global institutional arrangements. This volume will be of great interest and value to academics working in the fields of philosophy, political science and international relations, as well as to undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. It will also be a crucial aid and challenge to practitioners in international governmental organizations (such as the UN and its agencies) and NGOs who think of their work in human-rights terms. Indeed, in view of the magnitude of the human rights deficit at issue, any moral citizen has reason to engage with the arguments of this book. And the book makes this possible for most in that, throughout, even the most complex aspects of rights theory is discussed in clear, direct language, making the text accessible to specialists and lay readers alike

Human rights --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social problems --- Poverty --- Human rights. --- Responsibility. --- Social justice. --- Pauvreté --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Responsabilité --- Justice sociale --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral --- Human Rights --- Responsibility --- Social justice --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Pauvreté --- Responsabilité --- Equality --- Justice --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects

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As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates. At issue are both the political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. The wide-ranging arguments shed light on global distributive justice, human rights and their implementation, the varieties of community and the obligations they generate, and the moral relevance of distance. This provocative volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theory, international law and development economics, as well as policy makers, aid agencies, and general readers interested in the moral dimensions of poverty and affluence.

Basic needs --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Economic assistance - Moral and ethical aspects - Developing countries --- Basic needs - Moral and ethical aspects - Developing countries --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Necessities of life --- Needs, Basic --- Social ecology --- Economic rights --- Quality of life --- Social rights --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations)

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Consider the fact that thousands of people die daily from preventable, poverty-related causes through no fault of their own. However, despite our failure to prevent more of these preventable deaths, we generally do not seem to consider ourselves particularly guilty, unjust, bad, immoral or irresponsible for our failure to act. This study attempts to understand our continued good conscience amid the suffering of the world's poorest. In doing so, it draws on Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy to demonstrate how writings in the principal debate about the extent of our responsibility for others at the global level, the so-called 'cosmopolitan-communitarian debate', contain a number of elements that enable and perpetuate our indifference to the world's poorest.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- General ethics --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Accountability --- Apathie --- Apathy --- Impassivity --- Indiffence --- Justice sociale --- Lusteloosheid --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Rechtvaardigheid [Sociale ] --- Responsabilité --- Responsibility --- Social justice --- Sociale rechtvaardigheid --- Unconcern --- Verantwoordelijkheid --- Obligation morale --- Responsabilité (Morale) --- Responsabilité (Philosophie) --- Responsabilité -- Aspect moral --- Responsabilité -- Philosophie --- Responsabilité morale --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Indifference --- Emotions --- Equality --- Justice --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Responsibility. --- Apathy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Economic assistance - Moral and ethical aspects --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995