Bharat Ranganathan

On Helping One's Neighbor (eBook, ePUB)

Severe Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009428200
• Artikelnr.: 70910121

Autorenporträt

Bharat Ranganathan is the Rabbi Sidney and Jane Brooks Assistant Professor of Social Justice and Religion in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His teaching and research interests include religious ethics, philosophy of religion, and theology. On Helping One's Neighbor is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations 1. Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others
2. Universalism and Relativism, Minimalism and Maximalism
3. Institutions, Severe Poverty, and the Obligations of Affluence
4. On Helping One's Neighbor
5. Moral Demandingness and Obligations to Special Relations and Self
Conclusion
Coda
Appendix I. The Relationship among Basic, Human, and Moral Rights
Appendix II. Dignity, Indeterminateness of Sense, and Human Rights
Bibliography
Index.