Affluent in the Face of Poverty

On What Rich Individuals Like Us Should Do

Bibliographic Data

ID23527465
AuthorsJos Philips (0000-0002-6159-3343)
Year2007
Pages227
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAffluent in the Face of Poverty (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAmsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.5117/9789085550129
OpenAlexW1535444117
Open LibraryOL36185479M
ISBN9789085550129
LanguageEN
References cited33

In this time of mass communication, rich people like us know very well the horrible conditions in which many poor people must live. In Affluent in the Face of Poverty Jos Philips wonders what we should do about poverty. The book argues that if we can do great good at little cost to ourselves, we ought to do so - and perhaps we ought to do great good even if the cost to ourselves of doing so, is not small. Also, it is argued that rich individuals like us can often, at little cost to ourselves, undertake a number of concrete actions which help to fight poverty, and that we are morally obligated to undertake acts such as giving tithes, living within our ecological footprint, and frequently buying fair trade products. Jos Philips is a lecturer in ethics in the Subfaculty of Philosophy at Utrecht University.

Cost of living · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Political science · Poor people · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Charité · Charity · Charity (philosophical concept) · Citizen participation · Domestic Economic assistance · Economic development · Pauvres · Poor · Poverty & Homelessness · Rich people · Riches · Services · Social aspects · Social ethics

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