On Helping One's Neighbor: Severe Poverty and t. Ranganathan**

Cambridge University Press

On Helping One's NeighborSevere Poverty and the Religious Ethics of Obligation\nAuthor(s): Bharat Ranganathan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009428217, 978-1009428217\nSynopsis\nExploring what he calls 'the moral horror that is severe poverty,' Bharat Ranganathan develops a demanding account of the obligations that affluent people have to assist severely impoverished people. He argues that this is an immediate ethical as much as a social or structural imperative. Noting that developmental economists and moral and political philosophers have focused on wealth inequalities in increasingly sophisticated ways, Ranganathan observes that within religious ethics normative issues around severe poverty have nevertheless received insufficient attention. Bringing together general moral, religious, and philosophical principles with particular economic, social, and political realities, and engaging cons.