Are We Conditionally Obligated to be Effective Altruists?

The article argues how effective altruism concern with the happiness of others. Topics include ethics of altruism like being with others serving people for best results; moral requirements of conditional obligations ways of difference with hypothetical imperatives; and the ways to rescue the human b...

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Published in:Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 36 - 61
Main Author: Sinclair, Thomas
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Winter2018
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