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2. Arguments from Beneficence, Part 2

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Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
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James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses objections to the belief that well-off people have extremely demanding obligations to poor people in other countries.
The views of J. L. Mackie, Bernard Williams, Samuel Scheffler, Liam Murphy and Garrett Cullity are considered. He then considers Murphy and Cullity's arguments that well-off people have less demanding obligations to poor people in other countries.

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James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University, introduces some of the key concepts in philosophical debates about global poverty.
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Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
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James Grant
Keywords
politics
philosophy
poverty
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 08/08/2011
Duration: 00:52:28

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