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The Ethical Rational of Business for the Poor -- Integrating the Concepts Bottom of the Pyramid, Sustainable Development, and Corporate CitizenshipHahn, RüdigerJournal of Business Ethics, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 313-324, February 2009... Development Goal calls for a distinct reduction of worldwide poverty. It is now widely accepted that the private sector is a crucial partner in achieving this ambitious target. Building on this insight, the 'bottom of the pyramid' concept provides ... View Record

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Descriptors:Business Ethics Citizenship Corporation Development Ethics Human Rights More...
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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 ... View Record

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Descriptors:Ethics Freedom Poverty Sen, Amartya
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Capabilities and Social Justice: The Political Philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha NussbaumAlexander, John MBurlington: Ashgate, 2008.... the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops ... View Record

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Descriptors:Capability Consequentialism Freedom Justice Morality Political Philosophy More...
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Neither Global nor National: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority and RightsSassen, SaskiaEthics and Global Politics, vol. 1, no. 1-2, pp. 61-79, 2008... essay is that today we are seeing a proliferation of normative orders where once state normativity ruled and the dominant logic was toward producing a unitary normative framing. One synthesizing image we might use to capture these ... View Record

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Descriptors:Authority Democracy Denationalization Globalization Nation-state Political Philosophy More...
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Heidegger and the Question of Man's Poverty in WorldWinkler, RafaelInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 521-539, December 2007... elements common to both texts: living nature as a normative rather than a physical order, the poverty of man's world in relation to the animal, and the attempted redemption of the latter through the acquisition of Weltbildung. ... View Record

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Ciudadanía y justicia global: la estructura trágica de las responsabilidades comunesÁlvarez García, DavidRevista Internacional de Filosofia Politica, vol. 29, pp. 139-159, July 2007Deaths due to poverty-related causes amount to a real, present, persistent and significant catastrophe. There is a common ground between a cosmopolitan conception of human rights and the internationalist normative principle ... View Record

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Descriptors:Citizenship Global Justice Political Philosophy Responsibility
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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... lives of the world's neediest) has reached a state of conceptual gridlock. I suggest a new approach to the issue, treating its relation to the Aristotelian virtue of liberality, and by combining this approach with a few relatively uncontroversial ... View Record

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Descriptors:Affluence Ethics Famine Giving Morality Poverty More...
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Pobreza global y conocimiento empíricoRivera López, EduardoRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 315-332, Spring 2007The paper assumes that global poverty is morally objectionable. The widespread agreement on this claim does not entail an agreement about the nature of the duties involved. However, I do not discuss the nature of those duties. Rather, I ... View Record

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Descriptors:Duty Empirical Global Justice Poverty Social Philosophy
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Moral Responsibility and Global JusticeChwaszcza, ChristineBaden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007.... 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 standing of individuals and collective responsibilities ... View Record

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Descriptors:Global Justice Human Rights Humanitarianism Intervention Legitimacy Moral Responsibility More...
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¿Por qué democracia? Referencia a los derechos humanos y a la ciudadaníaBozo De Carmona, Ana JuliaDikaiosyne: Revista semestral de filosofia practica, vol. 10, no. 18, pp. 7-21, January-June 2007... continents such as Latin America, Asia and Africa where poverty, exclusion and backwardness are realities which make difficult to achieve a democratic model inspired in the Western hegemonic modernity. An alternative approach to democracy and ... View Record

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Descriptors:Citizenship Democracy Human Rights Political Philosophy Rights
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KatrinaProtevi, JohnSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy (Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 363-381, Spring 2006... "naturalizing" account, I mean that I use the same conceptual field -- that of complex material systems -- to understand both the natural and social aspects of the event of Katrina. Furthermore, I use the term "event" not simply in the sense ... View Record

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Descriptors:Materialism Political Philosophy Poverty Scarcity Deleuze, Gilles
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Justicia, moralidad y poder en el contexto GlobalForst, RainerEstudios de Filosofia, vol. 33, pp. 9-18, February 2006... certain moral proposals about the problems of severe poverty and underdevelopment are lacking in normative foundations which they need to focus on. This is so since they consider institutional, economical, and political realities ... View Record

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Descriptors:Ethics Globalization Human Rights Justice Power Pogge, Thomas W
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A Psicologia do Senso Comum em Cenários para a Evolução da Mente HumanaAbrantes, Paulo C CManuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 185-257, January-June 2006... fundamental presuppositions and its characteristic conceptual and theoretical framework. Godfrey-Smith and Sterelny embrace this project and attempt to work out the details of this integration. Contrasting with nativist scenarios, which are ... 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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Descriptors:Ethics Global Inequality Poverty Pogge, Thomas W Rawls, John
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How Does the Global Order Harm the Poor?Risse, MathiasPhilosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 349-376, Fall 2005... (developed in particular by Thomas Pogge) for the normative thesis that the global order harms the poor, fail. The empirical thesis is that it is the quality of domestic institutions that primarily explains why a country is rich or poor. ... View Record

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Descriptors:Exclusion Global Harm Institution Political Philosophy Poverty
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Towards an Adequate Environmental Virtue EthicSandler, RonaldEnvironmental Values, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 477-495, November 2004... environment. Each of these concerns makes a claim about the poverty of normative resources at the disposal of environmental virtue ethics. I defend a conception of environmental virtue--as a character virtue with the same normative ... View Record

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Descriptors:Ecology Ethics Normativity Sensitivity Virtue Ethics
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Leave No Poor Behind: Globalization and the Imperative of Socio-Economic and Development Rights from an African PerspectiveIlesanmi, Simeon OJournal of Religious Ethics, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 71-92, Spring 2004... material deprivations on many societies. The article defends a motivational rationale anchored in the normative vision of socioeconomic and development rights as a way to mitigate the deleterious effects of unguarded globalization. (edited) View Record

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Descriptors:African Cosmopolitanism Ethics Globalization Human Rights Poverty
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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... 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 the good life?" and are rooted in a feminist, Christian ethical analysis of globalization. ... View Record

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Descriptors:Economics Ethics Globalization Poverty Transformation
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Vulnerability: What Kind of Principle Is It?Kottow, Michael HMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 281-287, 2004... characteristics of human beings qua humans, which are not normative in themselves, but fundamental enough to inspire bioethical requirements of protection and respect for human rights in the wake of social justice. A clear distinction must be made ... View Record

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Descriptors:Anthropology Bioethics Dignity Ethics Integrity Vulnerability
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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 International ... View Record

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Severe Poverty As a Human Rights Violation -- Weak and StrongHinsch, Wilfried; Stepanians, MarkusMaltepe Üniversitesi Fen Edibiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 2, pp. 7-32, 2004Wilfrid Hinsch and Markus Stepanians attempt to spell out the conceptual commitments involved in speaking of a "right" not to suffer severe poverty. According to what they call the "classical" theory of rights as it is exemplified in the ... View Record

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Descriptors:Allocation Duty Human Rights Political Philosophy Poverty
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The Law of Reason and the Law of LoveNubiola, JaimeDebrock, Guy.(2003). Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution, Debrock, Guy (ed). (pp. 39-49 ). New York: Rodopi NY.... is usually encouraged, both as a remedy against the conceptual poverty of the scientific reductionism inherited from the Vienna Circle, and at the same time as a way of efficiently tackling the most stubborn and unresolved problems which our ... View Record

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Locating HIV/AIDS and India: Cautionary Notes on the Globalization of CategoriesKarnik, Niranjan SScience, Technology, and Human Values, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 322-348, Summer 2001... meanings. This article looks to the ways that the conceptual categories of HIV/AIDS came to India in the biomedical literature, the approaches that the media in the United States and India took in contending with these meanings, and how ... 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... activity do not have definitive answers; that certain conceptual questions do, and when they do they have important practical implications; but that many conceptual questions do not have definitive answers either. The argument ... View Record

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Descriptors:Education Empiricism Ethics Moral Education Research Wilson, J
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On Economic InequalitySen, AmartyaNew York: Clarendon Press, 1997.... published in 1973, presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and ... View Record

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Descriptors:Economics Equity Inequality Logic Need Utilitarianism More...
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The Commitment of the African PhilosopherOladipo, OlusegunJournal of Philosophical Research, vol. 21, pp. 417-432, January 1996... freedom and development in a condition of enervating poverty--what should be the commitment of the African philosopher? This is the question I address in this essay. I argue that not much can be gained in this situation by a commitment to African ... View Record

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Descriptors:African Culture Experience Social Philosophy Social Sciences
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After the Family Wage: Gender Equity and the Welfare StateFraser, NancyPolitical Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 591-618, November 1994... allowances. Defining gender equity as a compound of several normative principles (anti-poverty, anti-exploitation; equality of income, leisure time, and respect; anti-marginalization, and anti-androcentrism), I show that neither model ... View Record

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Descriptors:Family Gender Liberalism Politics Social Philosophy Welfare
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Intuitionism and the Poverty of the Inference ArgumentGeorge, AlexanderTopoi: An International Review of Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 79-82, September 1994... the learner's experience. The nature of the agent's ability to engage in conceptual extrapolation from the experience must be considered as well. (And divergent views regarding this are likely to recapitulate the original disagreement.) View Record

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Descriptors:Cognition Epistemology Experience Inference Intuitionism
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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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Descriptors:European History Justice Nationalism Social Philosophy
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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... 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 the world, and putting out of focus a view ... 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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Descriptors:Moral Policy Poor Social Philosophy Welfare
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Development Refugees and Distributive Justice: Indigenous Peoples, Land, and the Developmentalist StatePenz, G PeterPublic Affairs Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 105-131, January 1992... claim that such a process is justified in the light of poverty in the country and underutilized resources in the frontier regions. After criticizing the opposing autonomy theory, a contractarian argument is made for global egalitarianism. However, ... View Record

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Descriptors:Colonization Distribution Intervention Refugee Social Philosophy
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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 ... View Record

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WOMEN IN POVERTY AND WELFARE EQUITY.Friedman, Marilyn ALogos: Philosophic Issues in Christian Perspective, vol. 6, pp. 91-104, 1985One conceptual development of the feminization of poverty is the feminization of the "concept" of poverty, I.E., A changing perspective on the causes of poverty and the legitimate rights claims to ... View Record

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Descriptors:Female Poverty Social Philosophy Welfare
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THE DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY.Ellis, G F RSocial Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, vol. 15, pp. 229-254, October 1984The nature of 'poverty' is examined in relation to a model of causes affecting the welfare of a community. It is suggested that one can operationally distinguish four major dimensions of poverty, Namely economic, Social, Political ... View Record

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THE POVERTY OF SOCIOLOGY: 'SOCIETY' AS CONCEPT AND OBJECT IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY.Wilson, H TPhilosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 8, pp. 187-204, June 1978The poverty of sociology is to be discovered in what necessarily constitutes its object--Society. This object is more than simply a concept functioning "heuristically" to "orient" research and thinking. To retain max weber's vocabulary, ... View Record

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Descriptors:Social Philosophy Society Sociology Bauman, Z Habermas, J Strasser, H
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MOTIVES AND WANTS.Myers, G EMind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy, vol. 73, pp. 173-185, April 1964... misleading. The larger aim is to remind us how unnecessarily poverty-Stricken our conceptual picture of our inner life is when it is reduced to tweak-Descriptions. Psychoanalysis and philosophical psychology occupy extreme positions--The ... View Record

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Descriptors:Literalness Mental States Metaphysics Motive Philosophical Psychology Want
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CUMULATION AND COMPROMISE OF REASONS IN THE LAWPeczenik, Aleksander"CUMULATION AND COMPROMISE OF REASONS IN THE LAW" IN "COMPROMISE IN ETHICS, LAW, AND POLITICS", PENNOCK, J ROLAND (ED), 176-189.(nd). COMPROMISE IN ETHICS, LAW, AND POLITICS. (pp. 176-189). NEW YORK: NY UNIV PR.... interesting theory of law need not be consistently normative or consistently descriptive but may also express a compromise between a normative and a descriptive point of view. Any effort to replace compromises by a "pure" approach ... View Record