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Crash Course Philosophy: Philosophy

1x44 Poverty & Our Response to It

  • 2017-01-30T22:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 8m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
We’re picking up where we left off last time, exploring the “ethics of care” and how it applies to extreme poverty. Are we responding to global poverty in a moral way? Philosophers like Peter Singer argue that we have an obligation to prevent harm caused by poverty, whereas Garrett Hardin offers a “lifeboat analogy” to explain our obligations to focus on caring for our own.
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