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Questions On Ethics And Human Sciences

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One of the important issues discussed nowadays is the World Poverty. There are many disagreements between experts in this domain, whether rich nations are morally obligated to help poor nations, whether helping the Poor by giving them fish instead of a fishing rods is a good solution? The question is why these disagreements occur? My main thesis is that disagreements between experts occur because of three main reasons, first of all each of expert can use different ways of knowing in order to explore the issue, second of all the big question is who can we actually classify as an expert and third point is the subjectivity of opinions. There are many experts who discuss the problem using different areas of knowledge. This essay will investigate mainly two of them: ethics and human sciences. Ethics try to answer the question “what is good and what is wrong” . In this case whether helping the poor is good or wrong. The next area of knowledge that I will be using is history. I will mainly focus on some of the historical events that determine the opinions of two different experts who present two opposite aspects of poverty. Now, I will focus on the first area of knowledge which are ethics. Assuming that the world is one big family and we are all humans with a human capabilities, each person who is in need has a right to receive an aid and each person who is incapable of help, should provide the aid or support. Mainly because of using one of the important ways of knowing, which

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