Aristotle on philanthropy

    Provided you have more than enough money to live on, is it easy to practice philanthropy? Aristotle doubted it:
 
    To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.

    (Quoted from page 3 of Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, edited by Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, and Leif Wenar. Oxford University Press, 2011.)
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