POL S 354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: No. 11 Group Raf, Michael Ignatieff, David Rieff
6 Feb 2017
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From the group responsible for that day, you will be randomly selected to share questions from each category. Discussion topics inspired by the chapter: (cid:862)what is most basic, perhaps, and most new is the modern notion that the emergency demands a response, including a response from distant strangers. But there is a tension between responses rooted in simply providing care and respo(cid:374)ses li(cid:374)ked to (cid:271)roader (cid:374)otio(cid:374)s of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) progress. (cid:863) Application of the chapter to one of the crisis areas discussed in class: In nearly every case the understanding of this obligation and the selection of courses of action were self-righteous and in part self-serving but never simply reducible to self-i(cid:374)terest(cid:863) Ignatieff: would focus on human improvement and in-turn the hope of the prevention of further humanitarian suffering. Rieff: would focus on healing current wounds and not on fixing humans.
