Poverty, Ethics and Justice

Author(s) Hennie Lötter

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Social Policy and Law

Series: Political Philosophy Now

  • June 2011 · 320 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708324004
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708324363
  • · Paperback - 9780708325711
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783160273

Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of democratic societies. Lotter talks about poverty in ways that depict this devastating human condition clearly. He shows why inequalities associated with poverty require our serious moral concern.