Abstract

RIVERA LOPEZ, Eduardo. Pobreza global y conocimiento empírico. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2007, vol.33, n.2, pp.315-332. ISSN 1852-7353.

The paper assumes that global poverty is morally objectionable. The widespread agreement on this claim does not entail an agreement about the nature of the duties involved. However, I do not discuss the nature of those duties. Rather, I address a methodological problem that arises, whatever position about global justice we might endorse. The problem is about the status of empirical theories within a normative theory that, as a minimum, imposes the duty to eradicate, or at least to reduce, global poverty. The purpose of this paper is critical: I hold that some of the most important current theories on global justice do not take adequately into account empirical theories about global poverty.

Keywords : Global justice; Global poverty; Empirical theories.

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