Poverty, ethics and justice / H.P.P. (Hennie) Lötter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lötter, H. P. P. (Hennie P. P.)

Series:

Political philosophy now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Moral and ethical aspects.

Poverty.

Social justice.

Poverty--Prevention.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.

Summary:

Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. Lötter talks about poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition clearly. He shows why inequalities associated with poverty require our serious moral concern.

In this study, social science research results have been synthesized into a definition and explanation of poverty that provide a proper background for moral evaluation. Poverty is defined as a many-faceted phenomenon consisting of tightly interwoven characteristics that play out in a complexity of manners depending on the unique circumstances in individual situations.

Poverty is one of the most serious moral issues of our time that does not yet get the appropriate response it deserves. This book gives an in-depth moral analysis and evaluation of the complex manifestations of poverty; it offers a series of ethical reasons to motivate everyone to engage in the struggle to eradicate poverty. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Complexity of Poverty as a Moral Issue

1 Are We One Another's Keepers Across the Globe? 9

2 Defining Poverty as Distinctively Human 20

3 Why the Inequality of Poverty is Morally Wrong 39

4 Poverty Violates Fundamental Human Values 56

5 Poverty's Impact on Human Environments 82

6 Poverty as Threat to Democratic Values 107

7 Why Poverty is Such a Complex Affair 129

Part 2 The Complexity of Moral Ways to Eradicate Poverty

8 Ethics for Eradicating Poverty 159

9 Justice as Poverty Prevention 179

10 Do We Do This Alone or Together? 211

11 Re-Imagining Governance to Eradicate Poverty Permanently 225

12 Compensating for Impoverishing Injustices of the Distant Past 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-305) and index.

ISBN:

9780708324004

0708324002

OCLC:

711051018