Análisis crítico de la defensa utilitarista de Peter Singer sobre la obligación moral de los ricos para reducir la pobreza

Abstract

There are several controversial and social issues that lead human beings to reflect on the practice of values and altruism, among them, and with the greatest current impact, is the reduction of poverty. One of the great representatives of this objective is the contemporary philosopher Peter Singer, who recognizes poverty as an absurd and intolerable situation. The fact that many people die from lack of food, shelter or medical care is an alarming issue since can be avoided without sacrificing anything morally significant and, therefore, he believes that people must rethink their moral duty to others. Likewise, after several writings, in his work The live you can save (2009), he manages to determine viable means for its eradication, donations by wealthy people, taking into consideration the huge amount of money they possess and that would not affect their standard of living if they donated a part of it. This work collects the author's arguments about the moral obligation of the rich to help the poor from the writings: Hunger, wealth and morality (1971), Practical Ethics (1984), Ethics to live better (1995), Compendium of ethics (2004) and finally in the work the live you can save (2009). In addition, the criticisms of authors such as: Dalia Romero, Andrés Gallardo, Cecilia Pourrieux and Macario Alemany, who find inconsistencies in Peter Singer's utilitarian defense in order to contrast and analyze it