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Peter Singer: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Peter Singer: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
ABSTRACT Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profound idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the "most good you can do." Such a life requires an unsentimental view of charitable giving: to be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more […]
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Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On
Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, Forty Years On
ABSTRACT Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, often credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, was first published in September 1975. In this lecture, the author assesses how well the argument has stood up over that period, and what progress has been made towards the changes in our treatment of animals that the book advocates. SPEAKER […]