More Than Charity: Cosmopolitan Alternatives to the “Singer Solution”

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-128

  Kuper, Andrew ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2002.tb00378.x     Document Type: Article

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1. These figures are from the United Nations Human Development Report 2001 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 9–13.
2. World Bank, World Development Indicator 2000. table 6.8 (provides definitions and measures cf the limited extent of development assistance), available at www. worldbank.org/data/wdl2000/pdfs/tab6_8.pdf.
3. Cited in Dennis Leyden, Thinking Critically in Economics, Web edition, at www.uncg.edu/eco/dpleyden/ctworkbook/hbook_1discussions(2e).htm.
4. Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence and Morality” (1972), reprinted in his Writings on an Ethical Life (New York: Ecco Press, 2000), pp. 105–117.
5. Peter Singer, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” (1999), reprinted in Writings on an Ethical Life. pp. 118–24, at p. 123.
6. Writings on an Ethical Life. The amount is in 1999 dollars.
7. Writings on an Ethical Life., p. 124.
8. Writings on an Ethical Life., p. 122.
9. Peter Singer, “Outsiders: Our Obligations to Those Beyond Our Borders,” (forthcoming [author's draft]), pp. 1–14, at p. 3.
10. “Outsiders: Our Obligations to Those Beyond Our Borders,”., p. 7.
11. “Outsiders: Our Obligations to Those Beyond Our Borders,”.
12. see also “The Good Life,” in How Are We to live? (1993)
13. reprinted in Writings on an Ethical Life pp. 264–72. at p. 267.
14. Singer, “Outsiders,” p. 3.
15. Singer, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” p. 120.
16. Bernard Williams,“Persons, Character and Morality,” in his Moral Luck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 1–19.
17. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999), pp. 111–45 and 160–88
18. for case studies, see Amartya Sen, Jean Drèze, and Athar Hussain, eds., Hunger and Public Action (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).
19. John Keane, “Who's in Charge Here? The Need for a Rule of Law to Regulate the Emerging Global Civil Society,” Times Literary Supplement May 18. 2001.
20. Audrey D'Angelo, “SA Loses Out While Global Tourism Expands,” The Saturday Star, May 26, 2001.
21. Singer, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” p. 123.
22. Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” p. 108.
23. Onora O'Neill, “Agents of Justice,” Metaphilosophy 32 (January 2001), pp. 180–195.
24. John Dunn has repeatedly stressed the centralityof these questions to political understanding. See his The Cunning of Unreason(London: HarperCollins. 2000).
25. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
26. Andrew Kuper,“Rawlsian Global justice: Beyond The Law of Peoples to a Cosmopolitan Law of Persons,” Political Theory 28 (October 2000), pp. 640–674.
27. Rawls, The Law of Peoples pp. 57–85.
28. Singer, “Outsiders,” p. 12 (italics in original).
29. Kuper, “Global Justice,” pp. 645–653.
30. See some of the excellent essays by Thomas Pogge collected in World Poverty and Human Rights (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2002).
31. Kuper, “Global Justice,” pp. 658–667.
32. For an empirical study of this kind of informed efficacy, from the perspective of the media as agents, see Andrew Kuper and Jocelyn Kuper, “Serving a New Democracy: Must the Media ‘Speak Softly’?” International Journal of Public Opinion Reseach 13, no. 4 (2001), pp. 355–376.
33. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), pp. 60–108 and 258–84.
34. O'Neill, “Agents of Justice.” O'Neill has long argued, eloquently and persuasively, that we need to know the corresponding and specific agent of obligation if we are to have a clear conception of the content of rights and the plausibility of claiming them.
35. Many of the problems of our world are problems not simply of distribution among states but of a state-centric system. A nesting of political structures that attempts to concentrate power around unitary, territorially differentiated loci of control is inescapably prone to conflict and mlsallocatlon. Such a system not only divorces the location of issues from the location of capability to resolve issues, but also encourages action to amplify a friend-foe dichotomy in politics.On these topics, see Kuper, “Global Justice,” and David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Jonathan Perraton, eds., Global Transformations: Politics. Economic and Culture (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1999).
36. See the discussion of this point in Quentin Skinner, Partha Dasgupta, Raymond Geuss, Andrew Kuper, Melissa Lane, Peter Laslett.and Onora O'Nelll,“Political Philosophy: The View from Cambridge,” The Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 1, Tenth Anniversary Issue (2002), pp. 1–19.
37. Singer, “What's Wrong with Killing?” from “Practical Ethics” (1993)
38. reprinted in Writings on an Ethical Life, pp. 125–45, at p. 125.
39. Singer, “Famine, Affluence,and Morality,” pp. 114–116
40. “Outsiders,” pp. 3,5–10
41. “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” pp. 122–124
42. Practical Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 218–263.
43. Singer, “Outsiders,” p. 14.
44. Peter Singer, “Moral Experts” (1972), reprinted in Writings on an Ethical Life pp. 3–6, at p. 4.
45. Cited in Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (London: Vintage, 1991), p. 464.