PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Giving What We Can, Moe Williams, Supererogation
29 Oct 2020
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Supererogatory to provide a substantial quantity of aid for humanitarian causes. Instead, it is *morally required* of all of us to forego luxuries to live as simple as possible so that we can give more to these causes. Singer"s argument: drowning child analogy: you see a child drowning in a shallow pond. You are morally required to help even if it means you ruin your clothes, etc. Applying the assumptions: but now, what happens if we accept the two assumptions and apply them to, say, the. - 13. 5 million people in syria need humanitarian assistance due to a violent civil war. - 4. 6 million syrians are refugees, and 6. 6 million are displaced within syria; half are children. - children affected by the syrian conflict are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. - most syrian refugees remain in the middle east, in turkey, lebanon, jordan, iraq, and. Egypt; about 10 percent of the refugees have fled to europe.
