Rescuing charitable duties
Sheldon Wein
(Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
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Abstract
This paper examines the duty to rescue and the duty to assist the needy. An explanation is offered regarding why common‐sense morality makes the duty to rescue feel more pressing than the duty to assist the needy.
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Citation
Wein, S. (2002), "Rescuing charitable duties", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 29 No. 1/2, pp. 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290210412976
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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