Global Distributive Justice After Rawls: A Modified Poggean Argument for How We Harm the World's Poorest
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description: This work presents an analysis of Thomas Pogge's approach to the problem of world poverty as presented in World Poverty and Human Rights . It begins by situating the project of Pogge relative to the work of his predecessor John Rawls. It then moves on to compare Pogge's negative-duty approach to more common positive-duty approaches by discussing the relative merits and weaknesses of the approach of Peter Singer to the problem of poverty. The remaining chapters give an in-depth analysis of Pogge's argument itself. Although there are significant holes and inconsistencies in Pogge's approach, a reformulated argument that preserves his original aim--treating the problem of world poverty by responding to a wide variety of schools of political thought by focusing on the ways that the people of affluent nations harm the world's most impoverished people--is set forth and defended.
abstract: This work presents an analysis of Thomas Pogge's approach to the problem of world poverty as presented in World Poverty and Human Rights . It begins by situating the project of Pogge relative to the work of his predecessor John Rawls. It then moves on to compare Pogge's negative-duty approach to more common positive-duty approaches by discussing the relative merits and weaknesses of the approach of Peter Singer to the problem of poverty. The remaining chapters give an in-depth analysis of Pogge's argument itself. Although there are significant holes and inconsistencies in Pogge's approach, a reformulated argument that preserves his original aim--treating the problem of world poverty by responding to a wide variety of schools of political thought by focusing on the ways that the people of affluent nations harm the world's most impoverished people--is set forth and defended.
author: Chakoian, Mark
keywords: Distributive Justice, Pogge, Poverty, Ethics and Political Philosophy
date published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:55:16Z
provider: Loyola University Chicago
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Loyola University Chicago