The Politics of Humanity
seems appropriate. But they remain at the heart of the possibility of humanitarian action (broadly understood). The problem that ...
along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did n ...
4. Humanitarian Action as Rescue Whoever saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world.^1 We had to burn the village in ...
philosophers, the “Shallow Pond theorists” in Kwame Anthony Appiah’s amusing phrase.^4 Perhaps another common thread is that for ...
wayside. But in the face of even the most crushing acts of inhumanity, some people, sometimes, do act. It is important to bring ...
starvation. Many compromises may have been necessary to get to that point. Wider injustices may well have led to the threat to l ...
can that not carry the danger of reducing the humanity of the rescued to a set of biological properties, to a kind of “bare life ...
wherein common humanity necessarily asserts itself as weightier than merely common biology. This is the crux of the matter when ...
humanitarianism always involves a strong conception of the practical and the possible. This dimension will be examined in the ne ...
life.^20 But ultimately, as an answer, it proves unsatisfactory, precisely because it takes the form of a list, and such a docum ...
own humanity. One may well involve sacrificing the other.^23 Though it may not always be articulated as such, this dilemma can g ...
II The Subjects of Rescue: The Rescuers It is clearly very hard to gain a clear picture of what saving a human being, beyond sav ...
This states very clearly something that is arguably a necessary correlate of the desire to engage in humanitarian action and sav ...
level, the creation of organisations like the Salvation Army. The humanitarianism of Gladstone encompassed campaigns to save far ...
desperately need it.”^33 Rieff actually wants to defend the minimal, visceral act of providing “a bed for the night”, that is, a ...
Moreover, how much does it matter if I think you’re saving my body, while you think you’re saving your soul? This leads to the q ...
III Motives, Intentions and Consequences On what basis, if any, can we make qualitative assessments of acts of rescue, in a mann ...
lives, a consequentialist logic ultimately imposes itself upon the process of deciding how those lives should be saved.^40 If it ...
result”.^43 The challenge of Hopgood’s argument is to ask whether there is any better route to defining humanitarianism than a n ...
Law is to define what one should accord one’s enemies out of common humanity. Brauman and Hopgood both share a consequentialist ...
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