The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers’ Perspectives on Philanthropy Paul Woodruff 0190648899 9780190648893

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• ISBN 10: 0190648899
• ISBN 13: 9780190648893
• Author: Paul Woodruff

In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about? On such issues, ethical theory can have momentous practical effects. This volume is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy from a range of philosophical perspectives. The authors are among the best-regarded philosophers writing on ethics today and include a number of thinkers who have not previously published on the subject. Most recently published work by philosophers on charitable giving tends to support what is called effective altruism-doing the most good you can. In practice, however, charitable giving is often local and relatively ineffective, supporting causes dear to the givers’ hearts. Are ineffective givers doing wrong or merely doing less praiseworthy work than they might? This volume includes at least three challenges to the effective altruism movement, as well as two chapters that defend it against the gathering tide of objections. Most thinkers who align with utilitarianism support effective altruism, and some other perspectives do as well.

Table of contents:

1. Duties and Choices in Philanthropic Giving: Kantian Perspectives

2. Virtue Ethics, Thick Concepts, and Paradoxes of Beneficence

3. Doing Good and Doing the Best

4. Severe Poverty as an Unjust Emergency

5. Integrity, Identity, and Choosing a Charity

6. Giving Isn’t Demanding

7. Afterword: Justice and Charitable Giving

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