Cosmopolitan respect and patriotic concern

Article Abstract:

Most citizens of nations with substantially greater average income and wealth than others perceive themselves to have a duty to show much more concern for the needs of their countrymen than for the needs of foreigners in making political choices pertaining to tax-funded aid. This patriotic bias, which is investigated, has come to play a central part in the debate over universalist moralities whose essential precepts prescribe equal concern or respect for all people everywhere.

International aspects, Industrialized countries, Industrial nations, Altruism, Altruism (Human behavior), Helping behavior, Great powers

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Beneficence, duty and distance

Article Abstract:

A principle of general beneficence, regardless of special relationships, circumstances or shared histories, that is the immediate source of the radical demand, is presented. Thus, homage is paid to the work of Peter Singer.

The Principle Of Sympathy (Book), Singer, Peter

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Promises and practices revisited

Article Abstract:

The pioneering recent work of T.M. Scanlon's on promising, are presented. Scanlon states that the moral wrong involved in breaking promises is not simply the wrong involved in flouting the terms of social practice.

Public affairs, Evaluation, Promises, What we owe to each other (Book), Scanlon, T.M.

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