| HR-50214-05 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Tomohisa Hattori | From Material to Moral Order: Ethical Justifications of Foreign Grants and Loans | 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2007 | $40,000.00 | Tomohisa | | Hattori | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Lehman College | Bronx | NY | 10468-1527 | USA | 2004 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
In what sense can foreign grants and loans be understood as moral practices? This project answers this question in three steps. First, drawing on Aristotelian virtue ethic, it reconceptualizes a type of foreign aid in which this claim is most plausible--multilateral and nongovernmental grants--as an international form of philanthropy. Second, drawing on the ethic of reciprocity, it reconceptualizes two types of official loan relations: between states; and between states and international financial institutions. Third, drawing on the critical realist philosophy of social science, it uncovers a deeper reality in which grants and loans are separate but interdependent phenomena: it is not conincidental that grant recipients are also debtors. |