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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Unrealistic and challenging solution of Peter Singer Can you imagine that if you do not donate to charity‚ people treat you as a murderer? Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher‚ professor at Princeton University and utilitarian‚ who fights against poverty. There is a side of society that often goes unseen by the middle and upper classes—a side ridden with poverty and misfortune. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty‚” Singer calls on the prosperous to provide for
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The Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney In 1793 an American inventor named Eli Whitney born in December 8 1765‚ Massachusetts‚ USA created a modern mechanical machine called the Cotton Gin. This phenomenal machine separated cotton seeds from cotton fibres and was incredibly important as it dramatically reduced the amount of time spent separating the two from each other. Eli changed the agriculture and manufacturing revolutionised not only the cotton industry but the American industrial
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Living in Poverty in Houston Texas The number of Houston-area resident living in very poor neighborhood almost doubled over the past decades which researchers say increase their risks for unemployment‚health problem and crime. Some of the increase came as raising unemployment pushed people already living in those neighborhood below the poverty level. Also the lack of affordable housing more affluent neighborhood likely contributed to the increased concentration of the poor‚as well. Many of those
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The Singer Solution to Poverty Does Singer Present a Valid Argument? Peter Singer is an Australian Philosopher and a Bioethics professor at Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation‚ a book that moved many to become vegetarians‚ while others were offended at his suggestion that humans and animals be on the same moral plane. In September of 1999‚ Singer published an article in the New York Times Magazine called ‘The Singer Solution to Poverty’
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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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from performing on the streets to be the most successful blues singer in her era. Her music and life is filled with sex and violence and while many blues singers have come and gone‚ very few ever made such an impact with such a short career as she did. In 1923 her first recordings‚ “Down Hearted Blues” and “Gulf Coast Blues” became a huge success‚ selling more than 10 million copies turning Bessie Smith into the most successful blues singer of the era. She performed and sang her way out of poverty
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Ludwig van Beethoven 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827 [pic] [pic] Ludwig van Beethoven is perhaps the most famous and influential of all the pianist composers of his time. He was considered instrumental in the transition of between the classical and romantic eras in Western Art Music. Beethoven was born on December 16th‚ 1770 in Bonn (now called Cologne‚ Germany) to parents of Belgian descent. His father‚ Johann‚ was a musician at the court of Bonn‚ and his mother‚
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August Wilson Any person that can rise up from the bottom rung of the ladder to the top is able to achieve great things in life. Renowned playwright August Wilson‚ a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes‚ and other awards for his work‚ is an example of such persons. He grew up in a lower class black family‚ faced the difficulties of an African American‚ and turned himself into the great writer he is. August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel on April 27‚ 1945 to Daisy Wilson and Frederick Kittel
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Before the invention of interchangeable parts in 1798 by Eli Whitney‚ every product was handmade individually by a blacksmith or a specialist. For example‚ every gun was unquiet from each other (like having a different length in barrel). Each gun had to be constructed by hand which created every gun was one-of-kind. Gun-making was considered at the time a very skilled craft. When a gun broke‚ it could not be easily repaired. This process to create a gun was time consuming and costly. Interchangeable
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