James Grant, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, discusses arguments that claim citizens of rich countries are responsible for harming poor people in other countries. He focuses on Thomas Pogge's influential argument for this conclusion, as well as Pogge's proposals for reforming international institutions.

Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions

4. Arguments from Harm

These lectures are about the moral obligations that well-off people have toward poor people living in other countries. Poverty kills about one-third of humankind. Many philosophers argue that the average person in a rich country has a moral obligation to do something about this. These lectures introduce those arguments, as well as the objections that others have raised against them. They show how contemporary moral philosophy deals with what many regard as the most important moral problem facing the world today.

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Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions