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This monograph opens with an examination of the aid industry and
the claims of leading practitioners that the industry is
experiencing a crisis of confidence due to an absence of clear
moral guidelines. The book then undertakes a critical review of the
leading philosophical accounts of the duty to aid, including the
narrow, instructive accounts in the writings of John Rawls and
Peter Singer, and broad, disruptive accounts in the writings of
Onora O'Neill and Amartya Sen. Through an elaboration of the
elements of interconnection, responsible action, inclusive
engagement, and accumulative duties, the comparative approach
developed in the book has the potential to overcome the
philosophical tensions between the accounts and provide guidance to
aid practitioners, donors and recipients in the complex
contemporary circumstances of assistance. Informed by real world
examples, this book grapples with complex and multi-dimensional
questions concerning practices and the ethics of aid. The author
judiciously guides us through the debate between deontological and
consequentialist moral theories to arrive at a sophisticated
consequentialist account that does justice to the complexity of the
problems and facilitates our deliberation in discharging our duty
to aid, without yielding, as it should not, a determinate answer
for each specific situation. Researchers, students, and
practitioners of international aid will all find this book
rewarding. Win-chiat Lee, Professor and Chair, Department of
Philosophy, Wake Forest University Susan Murphy's book offers us a
sophisticated exploration of the philosophical basis for aid. It is
grounded in a full understanding of the complexities and pitfalls
of the aid industry, but its particular strength lies, mainly
through an extensive discussion of Singer, Rawls, O'Neill and Sen,
in a comparison of consequentialist and duty-based approaches,
eventually endorsing a broad non-idealised, situated
consequentialist account in what she calls an interconnected
ethical approach to the practice of assistance. For anyone wanting
to think carefully about why we should give aid, this book has much
to offer. Dr Nigel Dower Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of
Aberdeen Author of World Ethics - the New Agenda (2007)
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