Essays about: "Thomas Pogge"
Found 4 essays containing the words Thomas Pogge.
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1. Think of The Children in Africa - a minor field study in The Gambia on the views of food aid recipients on the responsibility of food aid donors
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to contrast the academic discussion on whether the affluent countries have a responsibility or not to provide food aid for the LDCs, to the views of food aid recipients. In addition to the issue of responsibility I also discuss the responsibilities of individuals contra governments, and what type of aid (if any) that is best to ensure food security. READ MORE
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2. Thomas Pogge's Theory of a Minimally Just Global Institutional Order
University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och informationAbstract : 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
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3. The Right to Food and Negative Duties: The urgency of an alternative approach toward hunger amidst an overbearing institutional order
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Hunger currently plagues over one billion people around the world, leaving mainly women, children and rural communities in post-colonial developing countries unable to obtain their most basic need for nutrition. The fundamental human right to food is found to be a complex human right involving a combination of both positive and negative duties by states and international institutions in order for its guarantee. READ MORE
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4. Global Poverty as a Moral Problem: Thomas Pogge on Global Justice and Human Rights
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : Global poverty is a pressing moral issue that necessitates serious moral reflection. It is inextricably connected with the issue of global justice. READ MORE
