CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Kanygina, Yuliya |
|---|---|
| Title | The Demandingness Objection to Peter Singer's Account of Our Obligations to the World's Poor |
| Summary | In this thesis I argue that Peter Singer’s account of our moral obligations to the world’s poor in particular, and other act-consequentialist approaches to the problem of global poverty in general, are implausible due to their unreasonable demandingness. I examine three groups of act-consequntialists views: extremism of Peter Singer and Peter Unger, sub-maximizing act-consequentialism of Michael Slote and Samuel Scheffler, and Liam Murphy’s collective act-consequentialism. I argue that each of these views, in addition to the problems of their own, faces the objection that the moral demands it imposes as morally required are overdemanding. I argue that the demandingness objection is sufficient to render each of them unsound and that our strongly embedded intuitive belief that morality cannot require us more than we can reasonably bear is not plausibly accounted for by any of these views. |
| Supervisor | Zoltan Miklosi |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/kanygina_yuliya.pdf |
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