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Coda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2024

Bharat Ranganathan
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University of Nebraska, Omaha
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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.

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On Helping One's Neighbor
Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation
, pp. 178 - 179
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Coda
  • Bharat Ranganathan, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Book: On Helping One's Neighbor
  • Online publication: 04 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009428231.008
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  • Coda
  • Bharat Ranganathan, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Book: On Helping One's Neighbor
  • Online publication: 04 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009428231.008
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  • Coda
  • Bharat Ranganathan, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Book: On Helping One's Neighbor
  • Online publication: 04 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009428231.008
Available formats
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