PHIL 121 Final: Phil 121 Final Exam Notes
22 Dec 2016
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Emphasizes that extreme poverty is preventable: it is well within our powers to stop t or at least significantly reduce it. Singer"s claim: affluent people are morally obligated to give aid until they reach the. Suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and med care is bad point of marginal utility: not controversial. If it is within our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it complying with them. Drowning child analogy -> donating to famine relief. Assume that famine could be prevented if everyone gave . Response: the fact that some are disinclined to do what is morally required of them. Objection: if moral duties are too demanding, then people will lose interest in. Notice, however: singer approaches this in terms of moral duties falling on individual.
