Global Distributive Justice After Rawls: A Modified Poggean Argument for How We Harm the World's Poorest

<p>This work presents an analysis of Thomas Pogge's approach to the problem of world poverty as presented in <italic>World Poverty and Human Rights</italic>. 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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Chakoian, Mark

• Distributive Justice
• Pogge
• Poverty
• Ethics and Political Philosophy

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/211

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss-1210