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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1740-4681
- eISSN
- 1745-5243
- DOI
- 10.1177/174046810600300107
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews 93 cosmopolitanism will need to build on Tan’s important synthesizing work by addressing this problem. Michael W. Howard University of Maine michael.howard@umit.maine.edu Peter Singer, One World: The Ethics of Globalization (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 235 pp. ISBN 0-300-09686-0 (hbk). Hardback/Paperback. $21.95/–. The recent attention paid to the transnational issues in Anglo-American philosophy owes its origin to Peter Singer’s seminal article ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ ( Philosophy & Public Affairs 1.3 [1972], pp. 229-43). Singer’s main concern was direct aid for famine relief, though he asserted, but perhaps did not sufficiently emphasize, that there are other types of aid for alleviating poverty-related suffering in the world. In any case, the core idea was that the individual and the government are obligated to do whatever would produce the best outcome. Singer’s use of the now- famous example of the drowning child to make vivid the case for overseas emer- gency relief was not meant to imply that the only type of aid is the donation of money in the form of emergency relief funds. Rather, the intent of the analogy was to bring home the point that distance does not make a moral difference. Along with
Journal
Journal of Moral Philosophy – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006