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Disadvantaged Consumers: An Ethical Approach to Consumption by the PoorHill, Ronald PaulJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 77-83, June 2008... included the homeless, rural poor, children living in poverty, and aborigines isolated in the Australian outback. The opening section frames my work within the context of the larger marketing domain. The next section describes dysfunctional ... View Record


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Poverty, Human Rights, and Just DistributionGordon, John-stewartBoylan, Michael.(2008). International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Boylan, Michael (ed). (pp. 131-141). New York: Springer Verlag.Poverty is a serious threat for human beings and their well-being. People are simply unable to live a good life when they are faced with severe problems, e.g., bad education, poor housing, poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or malnourishment. ... View Record

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Why Should We Help the Poor? Philosophy and PovertyIllies, ChristianBoylan, Michael.(2008). International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Boylan, Michael (ed). (pp. 143-156). New York: Springer Verlag.Empirical poverty-research without specified ends is blind; it requires the prior identification and rational justification of particular ends. This, however, is the task of ethics because no empirical science can lead to normative insights. ... View Record


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Let's Talk Rights: Messages for the Just Corporation-Transforming the Economy Through the Language of RightsWettstein, FlorianJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 78, no. 1-2, pp. 247-263, March 2008... results it promised; global inequality has risen, poverty and hunger are still prevailing in large parts of this world. If this devastating situation shall be improved, economists must talk less about economic growth and more about people's ... View Record


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Global Poverty: Alternative Perspectives on What We Should Do -- and WhySchweickart, DavidJournal of Social Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 471-491, Winter 2008... Thomas Pogge on the causes of and solutions to global poverty. It finds that both come up short, because neither addresses "the elephant in the room," globalized capitalism. The outlines of a viable, more democratic economic order is sketched. ... View Record

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Consumption, Development Aid, and Natural LawChartier, GaryWashington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights Social Justice, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 205-257, 2008The new classical natural law theory offers a credible account of moral responsibility with regard to poverty relief that is distinguishable from consequentialist and Kantian alternatives. I outline the theory, explain its account of poverty ... View Record

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Partiality and World PovertyGoodmacher, ChrisPhilosophy in the Contemporary World, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 74-85, Fall 2007... responds by arguing that utilitarianism is an incomplete moral system, for it requires us to view the world impartially and see each being as equally important, when we are necessarily partial to certain others (family, for example) because, among ... View Record

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A Methodologically Pragmatist Approach to Development EthicsSt Clair, Asunción LeraJournal of Global Ethics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 141-162, August 2007... views development ethics as a hybrid between a public moral-political philosophy and a public conception of social science. Ethical analyses of poverty and development must lead to fundamental changes in the ways ... View Record

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Beyond the Pale: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic SterilizationStubblefield, AnnaHypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 162-181, Spring 2007... operate as an umbrella concept that linked off-white ethnicity, poverty, and gendered conceptions of lack of moral character together and that feeblemindedness thus understood functioned as the signifier of tainted whiteness. View Record

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Contractualism and Poverty ReliefGilabert, PabloSocial Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 277-310, April 2007This paper considers how moral contractualism, as developed by T. M. Scanlon, might help us to identify and justify global duties of poverty relief. It provides a specific elaboration of the contractualist framework and argues ... View Record

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A Liberal Mean between Singer and His Critics? Three Views on Poverty and GivingWood, AdamKinesis: Graduate Journal in Philosophy, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 27-42, Spring 2007... Morality" (that members of affluent societies have a moral obligation to donate funds in order to save the lives of the world's neediest) has reached a state of conceptual gridlock. I suggest a new approach to the issue, treating its relation ... View Record


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Discourse on the Foundations of Solidarity in the Social Encyclicals of John Paul IINjoku, Uzochukwu JudeEthical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 79-97, March 2007... relevant as they are insufficient in constituting an ethical framework in contemporary debates on international poverty, social welfare, social change and the effects of economic globalization. The author views the writings of ... View Record


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A Case for a Duty to Feed the Hungry: GM Plants and the Third WorldCarter, LucyScience and Engineering Ethics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 69-82, March 2007... nourishment will be discussed within the domain of moral philosophy to determine whether there exists a moral obligation to pursue this end if and only if the technology proves to be relatively safe and effective. By using Peter ... View Record


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A Case for a Duty to Feed the Hungry: GM Plants and the Third WorldCarter, LucyScience and Engineering Ethics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 69-82, March 2007... nourishment will be discussed within the domain of moral philosophy to determine whether there exists a moral obligation to pursue this end if and only if the technology proves to be relatively safe and effective. By using Peter ... View Record

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Disputed Moral Issues: A ReaderTimmons, MarkNew York: Oxford Univ Pr New York, 2007.... engaging articles on a wide range of contemporary moral issues. Carefully selected and edited for an undergraduate audience, the essays are organized into twelve chapters that cover: sexual morality; pornography, hate speech, and censorship; ... View Record

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The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Wealthy: What Does It Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice?Rottschaefer, William AVilarroya, Oscar.(2007). Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition, Vilarroya, Oscar (ed). (pp. 131-138). New York: Rodopi NY.... this world are morally obligated to alleviate the poverty of the vast majority. Fulfilling this obligation would cost a trivial one percent of their incomes. But the relatively wealthy appear be numbingly indifferent. Why? Current findings ... View Record


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Moral Responsibility and Global JusticeChwaszcza, ChristineBaden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007.Arguing for a dual role of human rights as legal rights and moral standards of legitimacy, Chwaszcza extends their role as normative correctives of the achieved status quo in law and political practice to international relations. How can the normative ... View Record

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Practical Nationalism and Global Duties of JusticeRodrigues, Maria VSouth African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 176-189, 2007... causes and consequences of environmental degradation, poverty, and war are creating a dangerous snowball effect that poses a real threat to people in every nation. While moral arguments for cosmopolitanism may be subject to nationalist ... View Record

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Global Distributive Justice, Entitlement, and DesertBrock, GillianCanadian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 109-138, 2007The facts about global poverty are staggering. Consider, for instance, how 1.5 billion people subsist below the international poverty line. On several accounts, alleviating the worst aspects of poverty would impose ... View Record


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Biomedical Research and Mining of the Poor: The Need for Their ExclusionKishore, R RScience and Engineering Ethics, vol. 12, no. 1 Special Issue, pp. 175-183, January 2006Almost all ethical guidelines and legislative policies concerning biomedical research involving human subjects contain provisions about relevance of research for the participating populations, informed consent, adequate care for research ... View Record

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Rousseau's 'Philosophical Chemistry' and the Foundations of Adam Smith's ThoughtRasmussen, Dennis CHistory of Political Thought, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 620-641, Winter 2006... that commercial society has a number of important moral and political drawbacks, but it has not adequately addressed the question of why he defends commercial society despite these problems. I argue that one of Smith's earliest (and most ... View Record

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Poverty and the Moral Significance of ContributionØverland, GerhardJournal of Moral Philosophy: An International Journal of Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 299-315, November 2005... severe need if we can do so a little cost. If this is true we have reason to suspect that it is redundant to know whether or not we have in fact contributed to the need of the global poor when assessing our duty to address global poverty. View Record

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Thomas Pogge's Global Resources Dividend: A Critique and an AlternativeHayward, TimJournal of Moral Philosophy: An International Journal of Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 317-332, November 2005... be counterproductive to the main aim of relieving poverty. This article traces the problems to Pogge's inadequate conception of natural resources. It proposes instead to conceive of natural resources in terms of 'ecological space'. Using ... View Record

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Dying While Homeless: Is It a Concern When Life Itself Is Such a Struggle?Song, John; Ratner, Edward R; Bartels, Dianne MJournal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 251-261, Fall 2005... consideration of higher order concerns -- what is moral imagination when daily life is so marginal? We conducted interviews and found homeless persons to have many personal experiences and feelings about death, dying, and EOL care, much ... View Record

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Poverty and Inequality: Challenges for the IAB: IAB Presidential AddressLuna, FlorenciaBioethics, vol. 19, no. 5-6, pp. 451-459, October 2005This paper focuses on poverty and inequality in the world today. First, it points out how this topic is a main concern for the IAB. Second, it proposes 'new' theoretical tools in order to analyze global justice and our obligations towards ... View Record

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Bonaventure on Moral Motivation: Trajectories of Exemplification in His Treatment of Voluntary PovertyClairmont, David AJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 109-136, Fall-Winter 2005In this essay I explore the theme of moral motivation in Bonaventure's writings on evangelical poverty. By searching for an implied account of moral motivation in these more directly practical writings, I chart ... View Record

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The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global DevelopmentLittle, DanielEthics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 238-242, October 2005View Record

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An Unequal Activism for an Unequal Epidemic?Selemogo, MphoDeveloping World Bioethics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 153-168, May 2005This paper observes that a substantially large moral duty of dealing with the AIDS situation in Africa has been placed on the drug companies and argues that this approach is inequitable. Using the poverty-AIDS relationship ... View Record

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Human Rights, China, and Cross-Cultural Inquiry: Philosophy, History, and Power PoliticsPeerenboom, RandallPhilosophy East and West, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 283-320, April 2005... us about the limits of tolerance, accommodation and moral pluralism? When if ever, should dialogue aimed at overcoming differences give way to coercion? (v) What role does abstract philosophy play in human rights as practiced in the real world? ... View Record


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Applying the Contribution PrincipleBarry, ChristianMetaphilosophy, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 210-227, January 2005... formal norms. Applying principles for determining ethical responsibilities, too, require such norms. Their content, however, should be much different from that found in criminal and even civil legal settings. Instead of demanding that an ... View Record

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Extreme Poverty and Global ResponsibilityHaydar, BashsharMetaphilosophy, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 240-253, January 2005... of whether and how much responsibility for extreme poverty should be assigned to global and domestic institutional orders. The main focus is on whether the global order brings about the existing levels of extreme poverty or ... View Record

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World Poverty and Human RightsPogge, Thomas WEthics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2005... and their citizens are harming the global poor. This conclusion differs from the usual presentations of world poverty according to which its causes are local and our duties in regard to it are positive ones of charity, aid, and assistance. View Record


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What Do We Owe the Global Poor?Satz, DebraEthics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 47-54, 2005... Pogge, I argue that not all of our obligations to aid the world's poor can be characterized in terms of a duty to refrain from harming them. Pogge's claims rests on both empirical and moral grounds that I believe we should be skeptical about. View Record

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What We Owe to the Global PoorRisse, MathiasJournal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pp. 81-117, 2005... duties towards the poor. Next, I explore whether (and deny that) there are any further-reaching duties towards the poor. Finally, I ask about the moral foundations for the duties to the poor of the sort that earlier parts argue there are. View Record

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HIV Prevention Research and Global Inequality: Steps towards Improved Standards of CareShapiro, K; Benatar, S RJournal of Medical Ethics: The Journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 39-47, January 2005... improvements in health by progressively ratcheting the standard of care upwards for research participants and their communities is an ethical obligation of those in resource-rich countries who sponsor and implement research in poorer ones. (edited) View Record

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Saving Amina: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural DialogueJaggar, Alison MEthics and International Affairs, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 55-75, 2005... distorts Western philosophers' comprehension of our moral relationship to women elsewhere in the world and so of our philosophical task. It also impoverishes our assumptions about the intercultural dialogue necessary to promote global justice ... View Record

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Reflections on a Critical Genealogy of the Experience of PovertyMcgushin, EdwardProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 79, pp. 117-130, 2005The persistence of poverty is one of the great problems of our times. In this paper I want to show how we can use Michel Foucault's work to recast this problem through a genealogy of the political rationality within which it appears. Foucault's ... View Record

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The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global DevelopmentLittle, DanielInternational Studies in Philosophy, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 151-152, 2005View Record

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The Endless Construction of Charity: On Milbank's Critique of Political EconomyHerdt, Jennifer AJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 301-324, Summer 2004... Enlightenment political economy and its attendant descriptive moral philosophy for "de-ethicizing" human action. A closer look at the development of theoretical understandings of sympathy, however, shows that instinct did not ultimately displace virtue. ... View Record

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Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from BelowFarmer, Paul; Campos, Nicole GastineauDeveloping World Bioethics, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 17-41, May 2004... the socializing disciplines to contextualize fully ethical dilemmas in settings of poverty and, a related gambit, the systematic participation of the destitute sick. Clinical research across steep gradients also needs to be ... View Record

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Global Distributive Justice and the Taxation of Natural Resources--Who Should Pick Up the Tab?Haubrich, DirkContemporary Political Theory, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 48-69, April 2004... natural resources, by taxing those who unilaterally exploit it and by subsequently redistributing the revenues to the globally poor. This article assesses the GRD's moral standing once it is institutionalized in the real world. (edited) View Record

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The Future of Globalization: Seeking Pathways of TransformationPeters, Rebecca ToddJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 105-133, Spring-Summer 2004... the constituencies, ideological underpinnings, and moral vision of each as background. It then critiques these theories using a set of normative criteria offered by the author. These criteria are framed to answer the question "What constitutes ... View Record

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The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distance NeedyChatterjee, Deen K (eds.)Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2004.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 chapters in this volume present the latest ideas on this ... View Record

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'Assisting' the Global PoorPogge, Thomas WChatterjee, Deen K.(2004). The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distance Needy, Chatterjee, Deen K (ed). (pp. 260-288). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr.... abroad?" This way of conceiving the problem is a serious moral error, and a very costly one for the global poor. It depends on the false belief--widespread in the rich countries--that the causes of the persistence of severe poverty ... View Record

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Is World Poverty a Moral Problem for the Wealthy?Narveson, JanJournal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 397-408, 2004This article discusses the question of poverty and wealth in light of several theses put forward by Larry Temkin. The claim that there is a sort of cosmic injustice involved when great disparities of ability or of wealth are found. He is ... View Record

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Thinking about the Needy: A RepriseTemkin, Larry SJournal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 409-458, 2004This article discusses Jan Narveson's "Welfare and Wealth, Poverty and Justice in Today's World," and "Is World Poverty a Moral Problem for the Wealthy?" and their relation to my "Thinking about the Needy, Justice, and ... View Record

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Ethical Decision Making in Fair Trade CompaniesDavies, Iain A; Crane, AndrewJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 45, no. 1-2, pp. 79-92, June 2003This paper reports on a study of ethical decision-making in a fair trade company. This can be seen to be a crucial arena for investigation since fair trade firms not only have a specific ethical mission in terms of helping ... View Record

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¿Es posible una ética global?Bocardo Crespo, EnriqueDaimon, Revista de Filosofia, vol. 29, pp. 35-50, May-August 2003... roughly outlined; secondly, some global problems arising ethical issues such as global poverty, the degradation of natural environment, or the impact of the politics of new transnational companies are reviewed; and finally, a prospect ... View Record

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World Hunger and the Moral Requirements of Self-SacrificePeard, ThomasSouthwest Philosophy Review: The Journal of The Southwestern Philosophical Society, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 23-30, January 2003... the level of marginal utility, and thus to live in poverty, to prevent the suffering and death of those who are starving or malnourished. In this paper I defend Singer's position. I argue that such self-sacrifice can be justified in theory ... View Record

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The Significance of Poverty and Wealth in Plato's RepublicLötter, H P P (hennie)South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 189-206, 2003... proceed to discuss the significance of Plato's views on poverty and wealth in the context of The Republic. Through this analysis I want to establish the claim that Plato argues for the following: (1) that justice, in the sense of the morality ... View Record

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The Moral Economy of AIDS in Sough AfricaNattrass, NicoliCambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2003.... contentious AIDS policy from both an economic and ethical perspective, presenting: a history of AIDS policy in South Africa; an analysis of the macroeconomic impact of AIDS; a delineation of the relationship between AIDS and poverty ... View Record

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Stalking the Poverty Consumer: A Retrospective Examination of Modern Ethical DilemmasHill, Ronald PaulJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 209-219, May 2002... paper ends with a discussion of common business practices and moral dilemmas that have continued over these decades, along with an ethical paradigm involving distributive justice to guide future management tactics. (edited) View Record

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Integrity, Wealth, Power, Poverty, and PeaceCalifano, Joseph JContemporary Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 3-4, pp. 52-57, May-June-July-August 2002... partial notions of justice, prevalent in contemporary moral thinking today, have proven inadequate to genuinely provide a meaningful solution and an adequate notion of justice. Instead, they have presented us with a set of ideologies that have ... View Record

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Outline of the Ethical Implications of Earth's Limits for Health CareJameton, AndrewJournal of Medical Humanities, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 43-59, Spring 2002... human health. Environmental health problems result from toxicity (i.e., pollution), scarcity (i.e., poverty), and energy degradation (i.e., entropy). Common to these three factors in environmental demise are the limits of the Earth. (edited) View Record

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Moral and Social Complexities of AIDS in AfricaVan Niekerk, Anton AJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 143-162, April 2002... pandemic in (South) Africa, are discussed. These are: (1) Poverty as niche or social context of the pandemic, (2) Denial, lack of leadership and the politicization of the public discourse on AIDS, (3) Problems related to accomplishing behavior changes ... View Record

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Is Liberalism All We Need? Lévinas's Politics of SurplusHerzog, AnnabelPolitical Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 204-227, April 2002... Levinas's philosophy, indicating the centrality of poverty and misery in this process described by Derrida as double bind, namely, as supplementation of the ethical disturbance by political justice. I examine the utopian meaning ... View Record

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Financial and Ethical ChallengesOddo, Alfonso RTeaching Business Ethics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 15-25, February 2002... Internet to advance themselves, and those who, because of poverty, education, or other barriers, cannot--offers some unique financial and ethical challenges. This article addresses some issues related to how technology, particularly ... View Record

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Moral Universalism and Global Economic JusticePogge, Thomas WPolitics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-58, February 2002Moral universalism centrally involves the idea that the moral assessment of person and their conduct, of social rules and states of affairs, must be based on fundamental principles that do not, explicitly or covertly, discriminate ... View Record

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Responsibilities for Poverty-Related Ill HealthPogge, Thomas WEthics and International Affairs, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 71-79, 2002... that harms we inflict through the rules have greater moral weight than like harms our rules merely fail to prevent or to mitigate. While current (consequentialist and Rawlsian) theorizing reflects the first perspective alone, an adequate account ... View Record

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Poverty and Health Ethics in Developing CountriesBegum, HasnaBioethics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 50-56, February 2001... difficulties of exploitation, dehumanization and lack of ethical professionalism, to an extent that developed countries do not encounter. Poverty-related difficulties include lack of infra-structure, unreasonable dominance of defense-related ... View Record

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The Ethical Challenges of Globalisation: Critical Reflections on the ISBEE 2nd World Congress in Sao Paulo, BrazilMcphail, KenBusiness Ethics: A European Review, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 78-82, January 2001... debate within the business ethics community on the ethical challenges of globalization. The paper contends that the assumption that globalization is good because it generates the kind of economic development essential for reducing world poverty ... View Record

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Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'Williams, Robert R (eds.)Albany: SUNY Pr, 2001.... essays here treat Hegel's critique of morality (Kant), social contract theory, capitalism, poverty, as well as Hegel's views on punishment, freedom, and the ethical character and unity of the idea of the state. (publisher) View Record

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Hegel's Implicit View on How to Solve the Problem of Poverty: The Responsible Consumer and the Return of the Ethical to Civil SocietyAnderson, JoelWilliams, Robert R.(2001). Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right', Williams, Robert R (ed). (pp. 185-205). Albany: SUNY Pr.... despaired of providing a solution to the problem of poverty, I argue, on the basis of key dialectical transitions in Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie, that he held at least the following: (1) that the chronic poverty endemic to ... View Record

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Priorities of Global JusticePogge, Thomas WMetaphilosophy, vol. 32, no. 1/2, pp. 6-24, January 2001One-third of all human deaths are due to poverty-related causes, to malnutrition and to diseases that can be prevented or cured cheaply. Yet our politicians, academics, and mass media show little concern for how such poverty ... View Record

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Morality and World HungerBittner, RüdigerMetaphilosophy, vol. 32, no. 1/2, pp. 25-33, January 2001... hunger hold an inferior place on the contemporary moral agenda? Proposed answer: because it is a political, not a moral problem. It is not a moral problem, because morality needs two conditions fulfilled: that ... View Record

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Justice, Posterity, and the EnvironmentBeckerman, Wilfred; Pasek, JoannaNew York: Oxford Univ Pr New York, 2001.... prosperity; in poor countries, they are seen as problems of poverty. Lack of clean drinking water and insufficient sanitation affect the here and now, whereas environmental problems in rich countries seem more likely to harm posterity. This book addresses ... View Record

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The Poverty of Empirical Research in Moral Education: Beyond John WilsonBarrow, RobinJournal of Moral Education, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 313-321, September 2000... implications; but that many conceptual questions do not have definitive answers either. The argument is pursued by reference to Wilson's views on the nature and importance of philosophy, and to moral education by way of example. (edited) View Record

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Silenced Subjectivity: Remarks on Hegel's View of Plato's WorldDe Laurentiis, AllegraStudies in Practical Philosophy: A Journal of Ethical and Political Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 64-79, Spring 2000... collective dimension of mind's self-relation) in the ethical-political dialogues. The conclusion ("The Poverty of Ancient Dialectics") discusses Hegel's evaluation of the dialogues' method ("abstract dialectics") as being a function ... View Record

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Material Poverty--Moral PovertyFletcher, George PHeffernan, William C.(2000). From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the Administration of Criminal Law, Heffernan, William C (ed). (pp. 264-276). New York: Oxford Univ Pr.View Record

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Ethical Theory: A Concise AnthologyGiersson, H (eds.); Holmgren, Margaret (eds.)Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2000.This anthology is designed for use as a brief introduction to ethical theory. Included are sections on various forms of ethical theory: ethical relativism, divine command theory, egoism, consequentialism, deontology, justice, ... View Record

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Moral CompetenceDwyer, SusanMurasugi, Kumiko.(1999). Philosophy and Linguistics, Murasugi, Kumiko (ed). (pp. 169-190). Boulder: Westview Pr.... parallels between the development and exercise of human moral abilities and the development and exercise of human linguistic capacities. On the basis of these similarities, I develop a poverty of the moral stimulus ... View Record

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Is Poverty ViolenceLee, StevenCurtin, Deane.(1999). Institutional Violence, Curtin, Deane (ed). (pp. 5-12). Amsterdam: Rodopi.Is it appropriate to regard poverty as a form of violence? First, I seek to rebut the presumption from ordinary usage that the causes of poverty cannot be acts of violence. As it turns out, the supposedly necessary connection ... View Record

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Buddhist Virtue, Voluntary Poverty, and Extensive BenevolenceSwearer, Donald KJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 71-103, Spring 1998... cultivating sympathy, and acting on others' behalf are ethical values highly praised by most religious traditions, including Buddhism. Nevertheless, this proposal runs counter to those who hold Theravada Buddhism to be dominated by the world-renouncing ... View Record

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Living with EvilsCard, Claudia"Living with Evils" in Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held, Haber, Joram Graf, 125-139.(1998). Norms and Values: Essays on the Work of Virginia Held. (pp. 125-139). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.... battering, rape, political torture, murder, extreme poverty? What can sustain us with regard to evils already perpetrated? This essay explores these and related questions regarding living with evils we have not managed to prevent or escape. ... View Record

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Intergenerational Equity and the EnvironmentBeckerman, WilfredJournal of Political Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 392-405, December 1997... environmental thinking. However, this does not relieve us of moral obligations towards future generations. One of these is to avoid policies that might condemn future generations to poverty, but this is a matter of humanitarianism, not ... View Record

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Business Ethics in Latin AmericaArruda, M CeciliaJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 16, no. 14, pp. 1597-1603, October 1997... America. Corruption and impunity came to be serious moral diseases in the region, probably as a result of a long period of dictatorship in most countries. Low ethical standards in the politics have had deep impact on individuals, ... View Record

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Guiding Questions and Changing Directions: How My Mind Has and Has Not ChangedO'connor, JuneJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 221-232, Fall 1997... expressions of religious convictions and the processes of ethical reflection and analysis that accompany and challenge these. As her research has increasingly focused on a North-South axis, the compelling voices of the poor have provided moral ... View Record

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Poor Women, Work, and the U. S. Catholic Bishops: Discerning Myth from Reality in Welfare ReformHobgood, Mary EJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 307-333, Fall 1997The 1995 U.S. Catholic bishops' statement "Moral Principles and Policy Priorities on Welfare Reform" makes an important contribution to the welfare policy discussion and to the development of welfare ethics, particularly as the Personal ... View Record

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Monologue and Dialogue in Christian Economic Ethics: A Response to Mary E. HobgoodFinn, Daniel RushJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 335-341, Fall 1997... "structural analysis" to describe the basic causes of poverty in the United States today and to critique the current debate over welfare reform. Rhetorically, the essay is monological, asserting a point of view without attending to its critics. ... View Record

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Social Science and Theological Ethics: A Response to Mary E. HobgoodBeckley, HarlanJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 343-350, Fall 1997... hope that governmental welfare policies can alleviate poverty and her support for the U.S. Catholic bishops' goals for welfare policies. On the other hand, if Hobgood's account of poverty and welfare exaggerates the role of systemic ... View Record

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The Vajjalaggam: A Study in Indian Virtue TheoryVan Den Bossche, Frank; Mortier, FreddyAsian Philosophy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 85-108, July 1997... dealing with a variety of topics. Focusing on the 'ethical' sections of the VL, it tries to describe an analyze its underlying ethical system. In Part I the different ethical themes of the VL (Valour and Destiny, ... View Record

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The Architectonic of the Ethics of LiberationDussel, EnriquePhilosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1-35, May 1997... difficulties with the grounding and application of moral norms. Second, it turns to a positive appropriation of the formal and procedural aspects of discourse ethics. The goal is the elaboration of an ethics that is able to incorporate the ... View Record


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Affluence, Poverty, and Ecology: Obligation, International Relations, and Sustainable DevelopmentHarris, Paul GEthics and the Environment, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 121-138, 1997... to provide such assistance to the world's poor for ethical reasons. Doing so would promote transnational distributive justice, which is defined here as a fair and equitable distribution among countries of benefits, burdens, and decision-making ... View Record

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Medical Ethics in the Developing World: A Liberation Theology PerspectiveFabri Dos Anjos, MarcioJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 629-637, December 1996Standard medical ethical analyses typically focus on the physician/patient relationship, patient autonomy and the clinical encounter. For Liberation Theology this amounts to neglecting the larger context of social injustice. Medicine is ... View Record

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Poverty and ViolenceLee, StevenSocial Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 67-82, Spring 1996Is it appropriate to regard poverty as a form of violence? First, the argument rebuts the presumption, from ordinary usage, that the causes of poverty cannot be acts of violence. The supposed necessary connection between violence ... View Record

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Killing and Saving: Abortion, Hunger, and WarReeder, Jr, John PUniversity Park: Penn State Univ Pr, 1996.... Western morality is in disarray, torn by incommensurable moral views, John Reeder believes that there is much agreement about taking and saving lives. Many people might in fact agree on the various circumstances in which the death of a person does ... View Record

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Poverty, Development, and Sustainability: The Hidden Moral ArgumentWeir, JackAcorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 17-22, Fall 1995... Westernization and 2) the philosophically controversial status of environmentally positive moral and political ideologies. Alternatively ways need to be found to encourage nations and individuals to adopt nonconsumptive values and lifestyles. View Record

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Bentham y la PobrezaGómez Müller, AlfredoTelos: Revista Iberoamerica de Estudios Utilitaristas, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 9-37, June 1995... Bentham's utilitarianism proposes to the problem of poverty, both on the level of moral politics and on the level of "private ethics" or ethics. The unity between these two fundamental parts of practical rationality are rooted ... View Record

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John Ruskin and the Ethical Foundations of Morris and Company, 1861-96Harvey, Charles; Press, JonJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 181-194, March 1995... drove the laboring class into cultural and material poverty. Ruskin's writings are in essence an appeal to the business leader to behave in a socially responsible, paternalistic fashion according to his own moral prescriptions. ... View Record

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Introducing Applied EthicsAlmond, Brenda (eds.)Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995.... an extensive introduction on the relation between ethical theory and ethical practice, followed by sections on personal issues, including family relationships and homelessness; professional issues in education, journalism, ... View Record

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The Roots of Economic Disparity and PovertyPanthanmackel, GeorgeJournal of Dharma, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 89-93, January-March 1995... response to the problems of "Economic Disparity and Poverty" in India. In the work the author is of the opinion that the phenomenal situation of economic disparity and poverty has noumenal roots that require a deeper philosophical ... View Record

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The Lukacs ReaderKadarkay, Arpad (eds.)Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995.... Also collected are: the autobiographical essay On Poverty of Spirit', material from Lukacs' diary, and such key articles as: 'Aesthetic Culture', 'The Ideology of Modernism', 'Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem', and 'Class Consciousness'. ... View Record

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Discourse Ethics and Liberation Ethics: At the Boundaries of Moral TheoryMendieta, EduardoPhilosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 111-126, 1995... informed phenomenological and hermeneutical analysis of ethical problems. For both thinkers the goal is the development of a post-metaphysical planetary ethics that supersedes the simplistic confrontation between universalists and communitarians. ... View Record

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What Is the Philosophy of Nationalism?Weiler, GershonStudies in East European Thought, vol. 46, no. 1-2, pp. 119-128, June 1994It is a strange fact that the poverty of the philosophy of nationalism stands in inverse ratio to its political success. While its basic concepts are far from clear, it dominates world politics. The thesis of this paper is that nationalism ... View Record

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Jeremy Bentham on the Relief of Indigence: An Exercise in Applied PhilosophyQuinn, MichaelUtilitas: A Journal of Utilitarian Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 81-96, May 1994... available. In particular, Bentham's distinction between poverty' and indigence', in itself implies the limitation of relief to the necessities of life, and the making that relief conditional on labour. In the final part of the paper, the connection ... View Record

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On the Language of Consciousness: Propositional Discourse and Moral SensibilityRay, G ThomasJournal of Thought, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 65-76, Winter 1994... that language patterns of classroom and text restrict moral learning. By using Gregory Bateson's work as a conceptual lens, discourse that is characteristic of schooling can be seen as reinforcing linear, sequential, and rational ways of apprehending ... View Record

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The Chipko Movement: A Gandhian Approach to Ecological SustainabilityGruzalski, Bart KSmart, Ninian.(1993). Ethical and Political Dilemmas of Modern India, Smart, Ninian (ed). New York: St Martin's Pr.We face two interrelated global crises: the poverty, homelessness, and starvation that affect people worldwide; and the ecological changes that threaten the earth's carrying capacity for life as we know it. India's Chipko movement, a grassroots ... View Record

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Stories from the South: The Voices of Latin American WomenO'connor, JuneAnnual of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. /, pp. 283-290, 1993... world categories of thought. Inherited notions about moral agency, religious conversion, and the meanings and functions of religious faith are challenged and given new renderings. These writings also make starkly visible the ways in which destitute ... View Record

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Present Concerns and Future InterestsMagnell, ThomasDialogue and Humanism: The Universalist Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 67-73, 1993... politically unenfranchised future is an insidious moral failing that reflects "temporal bigotry". Those interests demand that we particularly pay heed to the preconditions of civilization -- matters concerning the management of non-renewable ... View Record

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Cosmopolitanism and SovereigntyPogge, Thomas WEthics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 48-75, October 1992... conditions worldwide. The resulting institutional moral cosmopolitanism would support global institutional reforms toward a vertical dispersal of sovereignty, with governmental authority and patriotic sentiment widely distributed over a ... View Record

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Welfare Policy and the Moral Depravity of the PoorPaden, Roger KPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 289-304, July 1992Conservatives argue that the cause of poverty lies not in the social structure, but in the psychological make-up of the poor: Due to their failure to fully develop the virtue of prudence, the "undeserving poor" lack the motivation to work, ... View Record

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Hegel's Ethical ThoughtHoulgate, StephenBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, vol. 25, pp. 1-17, Spring-Summer 1992This article discusses Allen Wood's "Hegel's Ethical Thought", (Cambridge University Press, 1990). I contend that Wood provides an excellent account of Hegelian "Sittlichkeit" and shows conclusively that it fulfills, rather than suppresses ... View Record

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Justice and the Moral Acceptability of Rationing Medical Care: The Oregon ExperimentNelson, Robert M; Drought, TheresaJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 97-117, February 1992... provided to residents with incomes below the federal poverty line will vary according to the funds made available by the Oregon legislature. A rationing plan such as Oregon's which potentially excludes medically necessary procedures from the ... View Record

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The Problem of Absolute PovertyTrusted, JenniferCooper, David E.(1992). The Environment in Question: Ethics and Global Issues, Cooper, David E (ed). New York: Routledge.... there can be no duty of general beneficence and that it is not wrong to favor those who are near and dear to us. There is support for O'Neil's view that we do have a moral obligation to promote just distribution through political action. View Record

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La Morale Bouleversee: La Question de l'Ethique chez Martin HeideggerMoyse, DanielleHeidegger Studies, vol. 8, pp. 103-121, 1992... Dasein is involved, it becomes impossible to imagine moral autonomy as a resistance to Nature, as in Kant, or "spirituality" in relationship with an intelligible reality: calling man back to his finite essence, to the "shepherd's poverty", ... View Record

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La opcion por los pobres y la moral tomistaBasso, Domingo MSapientia, vol. 47, no. 184, pp. 109-130, 1992View Record

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Preparing for the 21st Century: A Philosophy for New ThinkingParsons, Howard LDarshana International, vol. 32, no. 1/125, pp. 8-14, January 1992... cherish the earth; uphold the people's right of revolution. On the broad scale of humanity, poverty and injustice in the undeveloped countries call for new thinking, a new economic order, and a widespread "moral mutation". View Record

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The Moral Economy of the Modern City: Reading Rousseau's Discourse on WealthEllison, C EHistory of Political Thought, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 253-261, Summer 1991... Rousseau's "Discourse on Wealth" sketches the new moral economy of mid-eighteenth-century European cities. That moral economy was a function of an ambition and desire for wealth that sacrifice liberty, pity, trust, and community. ... View Record

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The Poverty of Neurophilosophy.Stent, Gunther SJournal of Medicine and Philosophy, pp. 539-557, October 1990... mind-body problem styled "neurophilosophy" put forward recently by Patricia Smith Churchland on the basis of latter-day advances in the neurosciences is philosophically inadequate because it does not deal with the ethical dimension of the mind. View Record

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Taoist Cultural Reality: The Harmony of Aesthetic Order.Thompson, Kirill OJournal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 175-185, June 1990... deemed discord as springing from the imposition of moral and legal codes and poverty as ensuing from undue official concern for wealth and power. Classical Taoist thinkers viewed society as a spontaneous mosaic of people's lives, ... View Record

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The Poverty of Naturalistic Moral Realism: Comments on Timmons.Holmgren, MargaretSouthern Journal of Philosophy, pp. 131-135, 1990... critique of the recent attempt to combine a coherentist moral epistemology with a naturalistic version of moral realism. I start from Timmons's Moral Twin Earth thought experiment and argue that this "new wave" moral ... View Record

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THE INDEBTEDNESS OF LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES AS AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE FOR INDUSTRIALIZED MARKET ECONOMIES.Enderle, GeorgesInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 4, pp. 31-38, Spring 1989View Record

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THE POLITICAL THEORY OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY: TOWARD A RECONVERGENCE OF SOCIAL VALUES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.Pottenger, John RALBANY: SUNY PR, 1989.... contemporary social problems of political oppression and poverty, Liberation theology incorporates marxist social analysis in christian process theology to restore a normative dimension to modern social science. In this study, I assess liberation ... View Record

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SECULAR HUMANISM IN AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE.Grunbaum, AdolfFree Inquiry, vol. 8, pp. 21-25, Winter 1988This article illuminates the multiple intellectual poverty of politically inspired attacks on secular humanism. It is argued that, Far from being logically indispensable as a foundation for ethics, Theism is "morally sterile". Man's moral ... View Record

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RATIONALITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND BLAME.Philips, MichaelCanadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 17, pp. 141-154, March 1987... Many liberals reject this attitude on the ground that poverty (etc.) breeds criminality, And therefore that people from such backgrounds are often not (fully) responsible for what they do. Roughly, I argue that the conservatives are (often) ... View Record

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ON THE POVERTY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY: RUNNING A BIT WITH THE TUCKER-WOOD THESIS.Nielsen, KaiStudies in Soviet Thought, vol. 33, pp. 147-164, February 1987View Record

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ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE FREEDOM: HEGELIAN PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE.Kucheman, Clark AOwl of Minerva, vol. 15, pp. 23-44, Fall 1983... libertarianism, That individual human beings have positive moral rights to above-Poverty conditions of life against other individuals who have self-Imposed positive moral duties to provide these conditions in the degree ... View Record

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IS CAPITALISM STILL VIABLE?Kirk, RussellJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 1, pp. 277-280, November 1982... religion, An ideology, A form of government, Or a moral philosophy, But rather "the private ownership of capital". Marx was wrong when he predicted the speedy decay of the 'capitalistic system' in the west and when he claimed that a competitive ... View Record

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DIE SITTLICHKEIT IN DER BURGERLICHEN GESELLSCHAFT: HEGELS WEGWEISUNG DURCH DAS NADELOHR.Lubbe-wolff, GertrudeArchiv fuer Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, vol. 68, pp. 223-254, 1982Hegel's theory of "sittlichkeit", I.E., Of the ethical institutions "family", "civil society" and "state", Must be considered as placed (by hegel) in opposition to the ethics of catholicism as embodied in the three "counsels of perfection", ... View Record

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THE POVERTY OF PRESCRIPTIVISM.Reed, T MPersonalist, vol. 60, pp. 243-252, July 1979... incompatible with hare's prescriptivism, And hence his universal prescriptivism. Since it is also incompatible with hume's law ("no 'ought' from an 'is'"), The whole of hare's practical moral theorizing is seen to rest on self-Contradiction. View Record

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MORAL CORROSION IN POVERTY CULTURE.Arif, Hasan ZafarPhilosophy and Social Action, vol. 5, pp. 33-37, January-March-June 1979... on human conduct. It is argued (a) that widespread poverty in underdeveloped societies makes it utterly impossible for people faced with imminent hunger and insecurity to act in accordance with their moral precepts; (b) that ... View Record

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NUCLEAR ENERGY AND OBLIGATIONS TO THE FUTURE.Routley, R; Routley, VInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, vol. 21, pp. 133-179, Summer 1978... storage. On the basis of an example with many parallel moral features it is argued that the imposition of such costs and risks on the future is morally unacceptable. The paper goes on to examine in detail possible ways of escaping this conclusion, ... View Record

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL MORAL ORDER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.Waterlow, CharlottePhilosophy Forum (Dekalb), vol. 15, pp. 399-425, May 1977View Record

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THE POVERTY OF SCIENTISM AND THE PROMISE OF STRUCTURALIST ETHICS.Stent, Gunther SHastings Center Report, vol. 6, pp. 32-41, December 1976... scientism, Which claims scientific justification of moral norms, And; soft-Core scientism, Which merely claims scientific guidance of moral acts. Hard core scientism is shown to fail on logical grounds and soft core scientism ... View Record

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THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY OF HANNAH MORE: PROPAGANDIST AND SHAPER OF VICTORIAN ATTITUDES.Richardson, WilliamRevolutionary World, vol. 11, pt. 12, pp. 228-239, 1975View Record

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GARRETT HARDIN'S LIFEBOAT ETHIC.Callahan, DanielHastings Center Report, vol. 4, pp. 1-4, December 1974... themselves only, Rests on a number of dubious factual and moral assumptions; that we cannot afford to help poor countries any longer; that such aid must necessarily harm them; that developed countries can be self-Sufficient in resources; and that ... View Record

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MICHEL HENRY LECTEUR DE MAITRE ECKHART.Dufour-kowalska, GabrielleArchives de Philosophie, vol. 36, pp. 603-624, October-December 1973... structure, De definite modes of existence (union with god, Poverty, Detachment) working as signs--Laying down a rigorous foundation for the moral and spiritual sphere which finds in the ontological truth its necessary and absolute principle ... View Record

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SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE NATURALISTIC OUTLOOK.Opler, Marvin KPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 33, pp. 561-573, June 1973... industrialized societies, Has not been progressive from an ethical or social point of view. Materials are drawn from buffalo, New york, Studies in the postindustrial period conducted by dr. Laurence glasco and supervised by dr. Opler, And these are ... View Record

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VON DER ARMUT AM GEISTE: A DIALOGUE BY THE YOUNG LUKACS.Heller, AgnesPhilosophical Forum (Boston), vol. 3, pp. 360-370, Spring-Summer 1972... of its genesis, Then analyzes the key-Concept, "the poverty of spirit" and the rejection of the ethics based on positive normatives--An attack against kantian moral philosophy--And the formulation of a new ethics, That of the ... View Record

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ADAM SMITH'S PHILOSOPHY OF RICHES.West, E GPhilosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, vol. 44, pp. 101-115, April 1969... first prudence (self interest), While his "theory of moral sentiments" (1759) had the perspective of all three. There he postulated a human propensity towards sympathy (or empathy) and asserted that man is a social animal. The basic human motivation ... View Record

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UN POINT DE VUE MORAL SUR LE PROBLEME DE LA PAUVRETE.Murin, CharlesDialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 6, pp. 68-73, June 1967View Record

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MORALS IN A FREE SOCIETY.Keeling, MichaelLONDON,: S C M PR,, 1967.View Record


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THE MORE ABUNDANT LIFE.Sumberg, Theodore AAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 21, pp. 1-9, 1962This article examines the moral and political presuppositions of the increasingly worldwide surrender to the ideal of a higher and higher standard of living. Moral disaster ensues where the attack on poverty is ... View Record

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PERSON, PROPERTY, AND CIVIL SOCIETYStillman, Peter G"PERSON, PROPERTY, AND CIVIL SOCIETY" IN "HEGEL'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT", VERENE, DONALD PHILLIP (ED), 103-118.(nd). HEGEL'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT. (pp. 103-118). ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS: HUMANITIES PR.... freedom. But it also, In civil society, Results in ethical degradations deriving from extremes of wealth and poverty and from inequalities in education and recognition by others. Property alone is essential but inadequate for ... View Record

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