Helena Béjar, or the Progressive Potential of Philanthropy and Compassion
From Karl Marx to current critics of ‘effective altruism’, the elements of the political left demanding systemic change toward durable equity have long doubted the efficacy of private acts of charity in achieving progressive goals, including material equality or social justice. This article challeng...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/123768 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon.418991 http://hdl.handle.net/10201/123768 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Helena Béjar Progressivism Philanthropy Charity Compassion Effective altruism Progresismo Filantropía Caridad Compasión Altruismo efectivo CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología |
| Resumo: | From Karl Marx to current critics of ‘effective altruism’, the elements of the political left demanding systemic change toward durable equity have long doubted the efficacy of private acts of charity in achieving progressive goals, including material equality or social justice. This article challenges this position, through an investigation of Spanish thinker Helena Béjar’s philosophical analyses of volunteer philanthropy and compassion as potentially conducive to progressive aims. It finally claims that Béjar illuminates new avenues of inquiry into existing questions, though her voice has been absent from relevant debates outside her native Spain, where one of her major works, The Bad Samaritan [El mal samaritano], was a finalist for the prestigious Anagrama Essay Prize. |
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