Title: An Agential Account of Poverty<\/p>\n
Abstract: Poverty has traditionally been conceived as a state of deprivation. To be poor is to lack something that is essential to human flourishing. How that something is conceived\u2014in terms of welfare, resources, or capabilities\u2014and how it is to be measured\u2014in absolute terms or as relative to a social standard\u2014has been the subject of much debate within development circles. Though many philosophers have written about our obligations to the poor, relatively little philosophical attention has been devoted to thinking of poverty as a phenomenon ripe for philosophical analysis. In this paper, I put forward a theory of poverty rooted in the philosophy of action. I argue that to be poor is to be in a context in which an agent\u2019s capacity for long-term deliberation is systemically undermined by rational pressure to engage in efficient short-term deliberation. In other words, to be poor is to have to constantly turn one\u2019s mind to the immediate satisfaction of current needs and desires at the expense of deliberating about the pursuit of long-term projects and ends that one deeply values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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