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On the Supposed Obligation to Relieve Famine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2002

John Kekes
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Abstract

In an influential paper, Peter Singer claims that affluent people have a strong obligation to relieve famine. If they fail, they allow others to die, and makes them murderers. In responding to this outrageous claim, which has given uneasy conscience to many, I show that Singer is engaged in indefensible moralizing that substitutes bullying for reasoned argument and gives a bad name to morality.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 503 - 517
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2002

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