Poverty & Our Response to It
Show: Crash Course Philosophy --> Season: 1 - Philosophy
AirDate: 1/30/2017
Runtime: 8
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Overview: We’re picking up where we left off last time, exploring the “ethics of care” and how it applies to extreme poverty. Are we responding to global poverty in a moral way? Philosophers like Peter Singer argue that we have an obligation to prevent harm caused by poverty, whereas Garrett Hardin offers a “lifeboat analogy” to explain our obligations to focus on caring for our own.