PP223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert Nozick, Negative And Positive Rights, Pierre Trudeau
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Three theories of property and redistribution: the entitlement theory, robert nozick: if someone has acquired a thing in accordance with justice, he/she is justly entitled to that thing. November 20th, 2015: therefore, wealthy have moral obligation to provide economic assistance to people living in absolute poverty, argument rests on the premise peter singer calls the plausible principle, if it is in our. 3. power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance, we ought to do it . Objection 1: most frequent objection to organ sales is it involves the exploitation of the poor by the rich. November 20th, 2015: there is a risk of complications in the surgery, and in some cases the money received is soon wasted and the seller is back where he started, or even worse off because of health problems.
