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  • 1 - Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others

  • Bharat Ranganathan, University of Nebraska, Omaha
  • Book:
    On Helping One's Neighbor
    Published online:
    04 April 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024, pp 1-42
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    In Chapter 1, I frame the book. First, I identify the questions that motivate my book. For example, to whom do we have obligations? On what terms? And why? Second, I rehearse scriptural sources that may guide religious ethicists when thinking about our obligations to severely poor people. Third, given the various intradisciplinary debates in religious ethics about definitions and distinctions, I lead the reader through important definitions in contemporary normative and practical ethics, for example, doing and allowing, agent-neutrality and agent-relativity, and institutionalism and interpersonalism. And fourth, I comment on my methodology, highlighting my commitments to contractualist deontology and the use of thought experiments in ethics.