Who is Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher, currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favour of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favour of donating to help the global poor. For most of his career, he was a preference utilitarian, but he stated in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), coauthored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.

On two occasions, Singer served as chair of the philosophy department at Monash University, where he f...
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Peter Singer Quotes

• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
• The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
• I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
• In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
• So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

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Comments about Peter Singer

• Tpmquote: peter singer: claiming darwin for the left
• Shootintheskeat: i’m not a horse whisperer, i’m a peter singer
• Exuberic: im doing baby's first ethics (reading peter singer papers)
• Alexeidrummond: i recently re-read famine, affluence and morality by peter singer (1972). hard not to agree with the conclusion that we, the affluent, are all evil. reminds me why i donate to charities like oxfam, but also why the pitiful amounts i donate don’t match the scale of the injustice.
• Goldenintime: peter gabriel - in your eyes (secret world live)

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