- Thomas Pogge
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge (born 1953) is a
philosopher and currently Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs atYale University and Research Director at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature,University of Oslo . He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised byJohn Rawls . Pogge serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of theCarnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 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, extremepoverty . His book "World Poverty and Human Rights" is widely regarded as one of the most important works onglobal justice . Pogge's work has been, along with that ofCharles Beitz , 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. 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.elected bibliography
By Pogge
*"Realizing Rawls" (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
*"John Rawls" (München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 1994).
*"Eradicating Systemic Poverty: brief for a global resources dividend" "Journal of Human Development" Vol. 2 No. 1, 2001
*“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 Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2006).
* (ed.) "Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who owes what to the very poor?" (Oxford UP, 2007)About Pogge
*Hugh Lafollette, Review of "World Poverty and Human Rights", "Ethics" 113/4(2003).
External links
* [http://pantheon.yale.edu/~tp4/ Website at Yale University]
* [http://www.etikk.no/globaljustice/ Symposium on Pogge's book] . Includes several online papers by and about Pogge.
* [http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid339002679?bclid=340471403&bctid=348522974 A UNU Conversation with Thomas Pogge] . A video interview conducted at the United Nations University.
*worldcat id|lccn-n87-812785
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