Pogge, poverty, and war

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
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Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: University of Aarhus, Denmark

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2017, vol. 16, issue 4, 446-469

Abstract: According to Thomas Pogge, rich people do not simply violate a positive duty of assistance to help the global poor; rather, they violate a negative duty not to harm them. They do so by imposing an unjust global economic structure on poor people. Assuming that these claims are correct, it follows that, ceteris paribus , wars waged by the poor against the rich to resist this imposition are morally equivalent to wars waged in self-defense against military aggression. Hence, if self-defense against military aggression is just, then, ceteris paribus , so are defensive wars against the imposition of economic injustice. While I do not think Pogge’s analysis of the causes of global poverty is correct, I defend these inferences against various challenges.

Keywords: duties of assistance; economic injustice; global justice; jus ad bellum; just war; poverty; self-defense; Thomas Pogge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X17701388

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