The ethics of assistance : morality and the distant needy /

The ethics of assistance : morality and the distant needy /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:	xi, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
Subject:	Economic assistance -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Developing countries. Basic needs -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Developing countries. Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects. Basic needs -- Moral and ethical aspects. Economic assistance -- Moral and ethical aspects. Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects. Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5171556

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Other authors / contributors:	Chatterjee, Deen K.
ISBN:	0521820421 0521527422 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. The Ethics of Distance
2. Outsiders: our obligation to those beyond our borders
3. Moral limits on the demands of beneficence
4. The new problem of distance in morality
5. Absence and the unfond heart: why people are less giving than they might be
Part II. Communities and Obligations
6. Moral closeness and world community
1. National responsibility and international justice
Part III. The Law of Peoples
8. Women and theories of global justice: our need for new paradigms
9. Human rights as foreign policy imperatives
10. Human rights and the law of peoples
Part IV. Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Reforms
11. Thickening convergence: human rights and cultural diversity
12. Global justice: whose obligations?
13. 'Assisting' the global poor