Essays about: "Astrid Paulsson"

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  1. 1. Thomas Pogge's Theory of a Minimally Just Global Institutional Order

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Astrid Paulsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Negative duties; Global Justice; Global Poverty; Obligation; Applied Philosophy; Reform;

    Abstract : The immense inequalities between the world’s poor and the world’s rich have compelledphilosopher Thomas Pogge to develop a moral framework based on the Universal Declarationof Human Rights that challenges our most commonsense political moral views. Poggedisputes minimally and universally that we all have a negative duty not to harm so long as theharm is foreseeable and avoidable, rather than a positive duty to do well. READ MORE