Effective altruism and collective obligations

Dietz, Alexander ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2469-2227 2019. Effective altruism and collective obligations. Utilitas 31 (1) , pp. 106-115. 10.1017/S0953820818000158

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Abstract

Effective altruism (EA) is a movement devoted to the idea of doing good in the most effective way possible. EA has been the target of a number of critiques. In this article, I focus on one prominent critique: that EA fails to acknowledge the importance of institutional change. One version of this critique claims that EA relies on an overly individualistic approach to ethics. Defenders of EA have objected that this charge either fails to identify a problem with EA's core idea that each of us should do the most good we can, or makes unreasonable claims about what we should do. However, I argue that we can understand the critique in a way that is well motivated, and that can avoid these objections.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN:	0953-8208
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 September 2018
Date of Acceptance:	27 April 2018
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2024 00:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/114822

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