Peter Singer

Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Essay on the ethics of allowing global poverty when preventing it is morally required

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Peter Singer
Peter Singer

Australian utilitarian philosopher whose Animal Liberation launched the modern animal rights movement and whose arguments about our obligations to the global poor have influenced effective altruism. Practical Ethics applies utilitarian reasoning to abortion, euthanasia, and global poverty with consistent, provocative results.

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