Exploitation and effective altruism

Daniel Muñoz
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Daniel Muñoz: 170561Monash University, Australia   

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2021, vol. 20, issue 4, 409-423

Abstract: How could it be wrong to exploit – say, by paying sweatshop wages – if the exploited party benefits? How could it be wrong to do something gratuitously bad – like giving to a wasteful charity – if that is better than permissibly doing nothing? Joe Horton argues that these puzzles, known as the Exploitation Problem and All or Nothing Problem, have no unified answer. I propose one and pose a challenge for Horton’s take on the Exploitation Problem.

Keywords: the All or Nothing Problem; exploitation; the nonworseness claim; deontology; effective altruism; supererogation; prerogatives; moral obligation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X21994495

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