Barry and Øverland on Singer and assistance-based duties
Barry and Øverland reject Singer’s assistance principle as being too demanding and offer a positive defence of a less demanding one. In this article, I critically scrutinize their arguments. My main claim is that they fail to show that their own principle of assistance is superior to more demanding...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Ethics & Global Politics |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2019.1565601 |
| Summary: | Barry and Øverland reject Singer’s assistance principle as being too demanding and offer a positive defence of a less demanding one. In this article, I critically scrutinize their arguments. My main claim is that they fail to show that their own principle of assistance is superior to more demanding ones such as Singer’s. |
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| ISSN: | 1654-4951 1654-6369 |