Abstract

GARCIA GIBSON, Francisco. ¿Cuánto debemos donar a las agencias humanitarias?: Defensa de una posición moderada. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2013, vol.39, n.2, pp.245-271. ISSN 1852-7353.

In this article I engage in the debate about the demandingness of our duties to contribute with money and time to humanitarian agencies that assist people who live in extreme poverty around the world. I defend an intermediate, moderate, view against Peter Singer's extreme view, and also against the view according to which our duties are minimal. The main objection regarding those two views is that, when  they analyze the situation in which potential donors are vis-à-vis people who live in extreme poverty, they miss its distinctive iterative character. The moderate view, on the contrary, pays heed to that character, thanks to its account of our duties towards the global poor as imperfect duties.

Keywords : Global poverty; Demandingness; Imperfect duties.

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