Thomas Pogge

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Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a philosopher, currently Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls. Pogge serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council journal, Ethics & International Affairs, and is an Ethics and Debt Project participant.

Pogge has written extensively on political philosophy, especially on Rawls, Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism, and, more recently, extreme poverty. His book World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2002) is widely regarded as one of the most important works on global justice. Pogge's work has been, along with that of Charles Beitz and Henry Shue, one of the most important in the "first wave" of work on global justice. Yet what makes Pogge's contribution to the debate on global justice and the eradication of world poverty original is his emphasis on negative duties rather than on the positive duties stressed by Beitz and Shue. According to Pogge, the global rich have a stringent duty of justice to take decisive steps toward the eradication of global poverty primarily because they have violated the negative duty not to contribute to the imposition of a global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably renders the basic socioeconomic rights of other human beings unfulfilled, and not because they must honor a positive duty to help others in need when they can at little cost to themselves.

1 Selected bibliography
- 1.1 By Pogge
- 1.2 About Pogge
2 External links

[edit] Selected bibliography

[edit] By Pogge

Realizing Rawls (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
John Rawls (München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 1994).
World Poverty and Human Rights (Cambridge: Polity, 2002).
“Severe Poverty as a Violation of Negative Duties” Ethics and International Affairs 19/1 (2005).
“Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor” Leiden Journal of International Law 18/4 (2005).
John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, trans. Michelle Kosch (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
(with Christian Barry) Global Institutiions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2006).

[edit] About Pogge

Special issue of Ethics and International Affairs 19/1 (2005) with contributions by Alan Patten, Mathias Risse, and others.
Hugh Lafollette, Review of World Poverty and Human Rights, Ethics 113/4(2003).