Should We Stop Thinking about Poverty in Terms of Helping the Poor?

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-27

  Patten, Alan ^a  

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EID: 34248035851     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2005.tb00486.x     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Thomas W. Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002). All in-text citation references are to this book.
2. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 37.
3. The phrase is from John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 265–69.
4. Pogge is scathing in his criticisms of Rawls's The Law of Peoples (e.g., see pp. 104–108).
5. Rawls recognizes that his law of peoples would be incomplete without an account of fair trade and the design of international financial institutions (The Law of Peoples, pp. 42–43, 115), and nothing in his discussion rules out the possibility that the best way to fulfill the duty of assistance would be through a reconfiguration of global economic institutions. Finally, with respect to (3), I have been arguing in the text that on the procedural interpretation Pogge is faced with a choice between also accepting a duty of assistance or being on the hook for the normatively unpalatable implications of libertarianism.