The first tutorial this term will be next week on the problems of famine.  I assume we all agree that famine is a bad thing, but why?  Famine also cannot be divorced from poverty. Poverty itself is a problem, but do you hgave an obligation to help somone who has less than you (if that is how we measure poverty).

You will need to read Singer and O’Neill who put forward a utilitarian and a Kantian persepctive respectively (both available on Blackboiard).  Also, before the dicusssion you need to consider Hardin’s analogy with the lifeboat (an extract is ion the tutorial booklet).