Singer Critique: Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Christopher Kinney Marissa Witt October 21‚ 2013 In Peter Singer’s 1972 article Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality‚ he describes the dire situation that nine million refugees faced in East Bengal in 1971 and urges the wealthier‚ or affluent‚ nations to take immediate and long term moral actions to stop the spread of extreme global poverty. With this‚ he offers a philosophical
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Peter Singer enters a new section‚ entitled “Motivation and Justification”. Starting with chapter 7‚ he looks deep into the minds of altruists to figure out why they chose this type of lifestyle. What motivates these people to do so much for the sake of others (Singer‚ 2015‚ p.75)? The immediate answer Singer first throws out is love‚ but he later refutes it and proposes empathy as the prime motivation. Empathy refers to “the ability to understand and share the feelings of others” (dictionary source)
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Animal Liberation Analysis Singer is analyzing/ reviewing “Animals‚ Me and Morals.” He is against the exploitation of animals or nonhumans. Currently we are discriminating against animals just because we “CANNOT” tell that they are in pain. We have animals undergo these horrible experiments for the sake of science just because they are beneath us in every way. Singer uses both pathos and logos to get the reader’s attention. Singer wrote an overall good analysis because he did have authoritative
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In “The singer Solution to World Poverty” Singer talks about the American movement and its connection to world poverty world poverty. Where he claims that the only solution to world poverty would be by donating money to charity and gives he point out amount of dollars that could save a child’s life. He talks about how people should not spend money on luxuries while they are children dying in the world and he says that those luxuries shouldn’t be more valuable than people’s lives. In His essay he
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It is human nature for us to search for a place to belong‚ not realising that it is our perceptions and attitudes‚ not the place that allow us to belong. Good afternoon year 11. Today I’m here to talk to you about how my understanding of the aspects of belonging have changed through my studying of the two written texts‚ namely china coin by Allan Baillie and educating Rita by willy Russel. All of you will study these texts in year 12. Before I start I want to ask you‚ would you belong to a place
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To give or not to give? This is the central question brought up in “The Singer Solution To World Poverty‚” an article written by utilitarian philosopher‚ Peter Singer. Singer’s “solution” is that Americans need to take all of their money that is not devoted to the basic requirements for life and give it to organizations that are working on saving impoverished children across the globe. In his piece‚ he uses two imaginary situations to draw a conclusion about the moral position of Americans who do
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Singer Vs Howe Do you wear homemade clothes? Probably not‚ we have the conveniences of manufactured clothing. We can thank Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Elias created the first working sewing machine and Singer updated and made it cheaper and more practical. The sewing machine was first made by Thomas Saint in 1790‚ later improved by Elias Howe in 1846‚ and again by Isaac Singer in 1854. Elias Howe’s family invented many thing from the wooden truss bridge to bed springs‚ so he was destined for
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In his essay‚ “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ the author Peter Singer wrote a few hypothetical examples to prove his moral judgments‚ in which he tried to persuade the readers to give away all the money one spends on luxuries via the example of Bob‚ a man who spared the innocent kids life trying to save his valuable Bugatti. However‚ the example of Bob failed to convince me as a good analogy for other people. First of all‚ Singer ignored one of the most considerable element in Bob’s scenario
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Explain the Preference Utilitarianism of Peter Singer Preference Utilitarianism is based on the idea that a good action is one that maximises the preferences of all involved so that my own want‚ needs and desires cannot apply to everyone. Utilitarianism is a teleological or consequentialist approach to ethics‚ which means that the action’s outcome is looked at. It is the greatest happiness principle. It is the consequences of an action which judge whether it is good or bad. Preference Utilitarianism
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poverty Try to imagine when you became a homeless child who is facing death because of starvation‚ would not you want a piece of bread from a kind man? In the article "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" Peter Singer talks about whether we should save poor children or not by donating money. In his article‚ Singer helps us realize our response for the deaths of children in poor families by asking the reader to consider hypothetical situations and put these moral issues into real life. In the
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