PHL 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fish Meal, Ronald Dworkin, Infant Mortality
30 Jan 2015
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Peter singer: poverty exists, some countries worse than others, at the same time the wealthy are getting wealthy. 10 mill children die each year before 5th birthday du to extreme poverty. The disparity between haves and have-nots is greater today than it has ever been before. The basic insight that appears from the impersonal standpoint is that everyone"s life matters, and no one is more important than anyone else"s. Simirilary, ronald dworkin elucidates what he calls the principle of equal importance. : equality attaches not to any property of people but to the importance that their lives come to something rather than being wasted. Singers concern isn"t inequality but the absolute condition of those at the bottom. Relative: millionaire and billionaire, big gap but not in dire need for money. Poverty the absolute level is life at the vary margin of existence.
