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Thomas Pogge

German Philosopher

Born: 1953

Advantage Obligations People Poverty Problem Research

Related authors: Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Martin Heidegger Meister Eckhart Oswald Spengler

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable. Thomas Pogge

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We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad? Thomas Pogge

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By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents. Thomas Pogge

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The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it. Thomas Pogge

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