Philosophy 2810F/G Chapter : Fuller.doc
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Poverty relief, global institutions and the problem of compliance. Buchanan talks about the same thing: fuller knows that everyone is not going to comply, so we should do things in real world mentality and not thinking to utopian. Individual moral responsibility and solutions. as individuals we have a moral obligation to give generously to organizations such as oxfam in order to prevent harm caused by extreme poverty. Enable co operation, long term projects: require public reason - esp 2 recipients of aid. Publicly accessible, appeals, regulated - public reason is the idea that everyone should be able, if they are reasonable, that the reasons given for an action are reason- able and the majority of the population would agree. Aids substantive and procedural fairness - substantive means that aid would go to places it was most needed more often, procedural - the way the decisions were made would be more fair and this would improve credibility.