{"product_id":"on-helping-ones-neighbor-severe-poverty-and-the-religious-ethics-of-obligation-hardback-9781009428217","title":"On Helping One's Neighbor; Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation (Hardback) 9781009428217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn Helping One's Neighbor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSevere Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeploying religious ethics and moral and political philosophy, this crucial intervention insists on immediate obligations to assist severely impoverished people.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBharat Ranganathan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009428217, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.2 x 14.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A rigorously argued account of the obligations that affluent people have to severely poor people. The most natural audience for the book is specialists in religious ethics, moral philosophy, and human rights discourse, though the book could also be assigned in classes for upper-level undergraduates.' Dallas Gingles, Reading Religion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExploring what he calls 'the moral horror that is severe poverty,' Bharat Ranganathan develops a demanding account of the obligations that affluent people have to assist severely impoverished people. He argues that this is an immediate ethical as much as a social or structural imperative. Noting that developmental economists and moral and political philosophers have focused on wealth inequalities in increasingly sophisticated ways, Ranganathan observes that – within religious ethics – normative issues around severe poverty have nevertheless received insufficient attention. Bringing together general moral, religious, and philosophical principles with particular economic, social, and political realities, and engaging constructively with the writings of John Rawls and Peter Singer, this passionately argued book boldly challenges deleterious trends within ethics by unpacking, in a much more systematic way than hitherto, the pressing dilemmas around acute impoverishment. It will find an eager readership among scholars of religion, ethics, developmental studies, and theology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations 1. Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others\u003cbr\u003e 2. Universalism and Relativism, Minimalism and Maximalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Institutions, Severe Poverty, and the Obligations of Affluence\u003cbr\u003e 4. On Helping One's Neighbor\u003cbr\u003e 5. Moral Demandingness and Obligations to Special Relations and Self\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I. The Relationship among Basic, Human, and Moral Rights\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II. Dignity, Indeterminateness of Sense, and Human Rights\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Religious ethics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religious ethics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religious%20ethics%20%5BHRAM1%5D%22\"\u003eHRAM1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414005838104,"sku":"9781009428217","price":72.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009428217i.jpg?v=1784335510","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-helping-ones-neighbor-severe-poverty-and-the-religious-ethics-of-obligation-hardback-9781009428217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}