O altruísmo eficaz como meio de redução da pobreza extrema

Abstract

The present work aims to introduce the effective altruism as a way to fight extreme poverty – understood as impossibility to reach basic needs of subsistance, being structured in four chapters: the first one dedicates itself to a research data about poverty, its possible causes and effects in the world and in Brazil; the second chapter consists of understanding the altruism while thinking, which dates back to 15th century; the third chapter introduces the effective altruism, proposal founded by the philosophers Peter Singer and William MacAskill, its assumptions and the innovative proposal to implement the good, so it can attain the biggest number of people as possible, through the application of precise and rational criteria; in the fourth chapter is brought the possibility of maximizing the good by the brazilian state by means of taxation of large fortunes.