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Famine and Fanaticism: A Response to Kekes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2004

Keith Horton
Keith Horton
Affiliation:
Charles Stuart University, Australia
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Abstract

In this paper, I critically discuss a number of arguments made by John Kekes, in a recent article, against the claim that those of us who are relatively affluent ought to do something for those living in absolute poverty in developing countries. There are, I argue, a variety of problems with Kekes' arguments, but one common thread stems from Kekes' failure to take account of the empirical research that has been conducted on the issues which he discusses.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Philosophy , Volume 79 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 319 - 327
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2004

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