dc.contributor.advisor |
Withy, A |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Dare, T |
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dc.contributor.author |
Kirkpatrick, Demi |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-03-01T04:20:11Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6553 |
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dc.description |
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
This thesis is divided in to three chapters. In the first I consider the conceptual distinction between duties of humanity and duties of justice. In the second I show how a rights claim is characterised by major theorists in the global justice debate and state why it is a mistake to generate rights based arguments to be relieved from poverty when no one is causally responsible for this. In the third chapter I revisit the conceptual distinction between duties of humanity and duties of justice and argue why we can only have a duty of humanity in cases where no one whether it be governments, institutions, individuals, nations or states are responsible for individuals being in global poverty. This thesis argues that although there are many wrongs that occur within a particular territory and across national boundaries this does not imply that all are unjust or that they are always the fault of other human beings. It could be that merely being in a state of poverty is morally wrong or unfair but not that all instances are a result of injustice. Many accounts of global justice assume there is a moral duty to eradicate poverty and that failing to do so is an account of injustice. Providing a conceptual framework for establishing duties of humanity from duties of justice is important for determining when one set of duties has priority over the other given a particular domain. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA99214733514002091 |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
A duty to Humanity, why Justice is not enough |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Philosophy |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the author |
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pubs.elements-id |
206735 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2011-03-01 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112886773 |
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