ON HELPING ONE'S NEIGHBOR.
ABSTRACT Few people doubt that severe poverty is a pressing moral issue. But what sorts of obligations, if any, do affluent people have toward the severely poor? If one accepts the idea that one has some obligations to the severely poor there still remains disagreement about the magnitude of this ob...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 653 - 678 |
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