Throughout Jason Brennan's essay, he raises a number of concerns with the way that philosophers tend to think about the foreign aid question. In your essay, explain one or more of these concerns. To what extent do Nicole Hassoun's arguments have one or more of the problems that Brennan describes?

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The Answer is Identify and explain one or more of the passages where Brennan takes issue with philosophers' arguments on aid in his essay (i.e- "This is a topic where normative reasoning and moral philosophy, in isolation, tend to lead us astray;" "Philosophy might uncover what our obligations are in light of the facts, but it does not help us discover what the facts are;" "But economics, surprisingly, tells us that philosophers are bad at philosophy. The problem is that these three thought experiments, and all the variations on them, are irrelevant;" "Philosophers tend to advocate the policies economists know don't work, and tend to reject the institutions economists know work;" "Philosophers think the actual world is analogous to thought experiments like these. This makes foreign aid seem morally mandatory;" etc.)
Develop an argument, drawing from specific elements in Hassoun's essay, to show how her essay either is or is not an instance of the problems that Brennan describes
An excellent essay will not make the part to whole fallacy, suggesting that just because Hassoun's essay does/does not fit the pattern Brennan points to, her work proves/disproves Brennan's point

Throughout Jason Brennan's Essay, He Raises a Number of Concerns