Rationality and the distant needy

Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2):161–178 (2007)
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This is my argument for the claim that morality is very demanding indeed. In a nutshell: being consistent is harder than you think.

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Caspar Hare
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Famine, affluence, and morality.Peter Singer - 1972 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (3):229-243.
A Continuum Argument for Intransitivity.Larry S. Temkin - 1996 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3):175-210.
Counterexamples to the transitivity of better than.Stuart Rachels - 1998 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1):71 – 83.
Liberty and social choice.Amartya Sen - 1983 - Journal of Philosophy 80 (1):5-28.

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