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On Helping One's Neighbor - Bharat Ranganathan

On Helping One's Neighbor

Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation
Buch | Hardcover
232 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-42821-7 (ISBN)
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Drawing creatively upon religious ethics and moral and political philosophy, Ranganathan argues here that affluent people have demanding and immediate obligations, through institutional reform and interpersonal giving, to assist severely impoverished people. An essential book for scholars of religion, ethics, developmental studies, and theology.
Exploring what he calls 'the moral horror that is severe poverty,' Bharat Ranganathan develops a demanding account of the obligations that affluent people have to assist severely impoverished people. He argues that this is an immediate ethical as much as a social or structural imperative. Noting that developmental economists and moral and political philosophers have focused on wealth inequalities in increasingly sophisticated ways, Ranganathan observes that – within religious ethics – normative issues around severe poverty have nevertheless received insufficient attention. Bringing together general moral, religious, and philosophical principles with particular economic, social, and political realities, and engaging constructively with the writings of John Rawls and Peter Singer, this passionately argued book boldly challenges deleterious trends within ethics by unpacking, in a much more systematic way than hitherto, the pressing dilemmas around acute impoverishment. It will find an eager readership among scholars of religion, ethics, developmental studies, and theology.

Bharat Ranganathan is the Rabbi Sidney and Jane Brooks Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Religion in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His teaching and research interests include religious ethics, philosophy of religion, and theology. On Helping One's Neighbor is his first book.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations 1. Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others; 2. Universalism and Relativism, Minimalism and Maximalism; 3. Institutions, Severe Poverty, and the Obligations of Affluence; 4. On Helping One's Neighbor; 5. Moral Demandingness and Obligations to Special Relations and Self; Conclusion; Coda; Appendix I. The Relationship among Basic, Human, and Moral Rights; Appendix II. Dignity, Indeterminateness of Sense, and Human Rights; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-009-42821-7 / 1009428217
ISBN-13 978-1-009-42821-7 / 9781009428217
Zustand Neuware
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