Should the Rich Help the Poor? | Philosophy Tube
Do people and countries with money have a duty to aid those in poverty? How are human rights affected by capitalism? What about reparations for colonialism and slavery? And isn’t this a very bourgeois way of thinking anyway?
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Recommended Reading:
Henry Shue, Basic Rights
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Leif Wenar, “Property Rights and the Resource Curse,” http://www.biicl.org/files/4363_wenarpapafinal.pdf
World Poverty & Human Rights – Thomas Pogge
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right – edited by Thomas Pogge http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001518/151826e.pdf
Elizabeth Ashford, “Severe Poverty as an Unjust Emergency,” in Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right
Bourgeois Philosophy, https://bourgeoisphilosophy.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/hello-world/
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