ABSTRACT

THE SINGER SOLUTION TO WORLD POVERTY

tant as saving life. On his account, this is

demonstrated both by eliciting our intu-

most of our material acquisitions (say,

ican citizens, he "wouldn't go out of [his]

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WHY CHARITY IS NEVER ENOUGH

Singer's critics also like using thought

sands drowning (or starving, or ill) every day-to expect him to devote himself to

danger in the world. it seems that moral

projects are so central to our existence that it

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selves politically and economically to meet those claims. Which combinations of rules and institutions of governance are most

are not just a leap from principle to action, they are symptomatic of an implicitly apolitical outlook that does not take the real

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POLITICAL JUDGMENT IN CONTEXT

observers and supervisors ... can direct our

cost-free-perhaps the most relevant

individualism and limited scope-temporal

tutional in our approach to global poverty

WHAT CAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY CONTRIBUTE?

interests into account-at least as members