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Hassoun argues that concern for our common humanity requires helping others live minimally good lives when doing so does not require sacrificing our own ability to live well enough. This, it suggests, provides a unified answer to the question of what we must give to, and can demand from, others as a basic minimum.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Account of the Minimally Good Life
- 2: Good Enough? Other Accounts of the Minimally Good Life
- 3: The Minimally Good Life and Basic Justice
- 4: Advantages of the Minimally Good Life Account of What We Owe to Others and What We Can Justifiably Demand Over the Main Alternatives
- 5: Helping People Live Minimally Well in Present and Future Generations
- 6: Hope and Virtue of Creative Resolve
- Conclusion
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
About the author
Nicole Hassoun is Research Director in the Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. She has held visiting positions at Cornell University, the United Nation's World Institute for Development Economics Research, the Center for Poverty Research in Austria, and the Center for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt. Hassoun is the author of Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines (2020) and Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding (2012) and has published widely in leading philosophy, economics, tropical medicine, and public health journals.
Summary
Hassoun argues that concern for our common humanity requires helping others live minimally good lives when doing so does not require sacrificing our own ability to live well enough. This, it suggests, provides a unified answer to the question of what we must give to, and can demand from, others as a basic minimum.
