In "Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality" Peter Singer argues that affluent individuals‚ in fact‚ almost all of us are living deeply immoral lives by not contributing to the relief and prevention of famine. The causes of famine are various and include human wrongdoing‚ but this doesn’t matter‚ according to Singer. What matters is that each of us can minimize the effects of the famines that are now occurring and can take steps to prevent those that might occur. As we go about our daily business‚ living
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Singer‚ Peter (1946- )‚ Australian philosopher and bioethicist. Born in Melbourne‚ Australia‚ Singer studied at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Oxford‚ in England. He began his career lecturing ethics at Oxford from 1971 to 1973. He subsequently worked at various universities in North America and Australia. In 1977 he became a professor of philosophy at Monash University‚ in Melbourne. Singer also became closely associated with the university’s Centre for Human Bioethics‚ which
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Privacy is Utterly Dead Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor at Princeton University and the University of Melbourne that studies Bioethics‚ Philosophy and Public Ethics. His essay “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets” focuses on transparency and personal privacy. One can see after reading this essay‚ Singer is in favor of openness‚ but he also notes that the government misuses these technologies by having sousveillance and surveillance cameras. A person needs to understand how
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In this essay I will evaluate the arguments by Descartes about animals which he uses in order to verify his arguments on the immortality of the soul. In turn I will evaluate the more contemporary arguments of Peter Singer put forward mainly in his book Animal Liberation.’ The concept of animal sanctity branches as far back as one can imagine. In ancient times animals were considered to have intelligence and even a language all of their own. This was an early view on animals stemming from pre-agrarian
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In the 1940’s while playing in a hidden cave in Lascaux‚ France‚ many children found a remarkable painting on the wall. After telling about their findings‚ researches and explorers visited the cave and it was then they saw the “Chinese Horse”. The art got its name because it resembled the ceramic horses of the Han Dynasty in China. Although the reasoning for the painting is unknown‚ they research has shown that several paintings in this era included plants and animals. It was not the only painting
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Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (21 February 1855 - 13 March 1913) was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century‚ and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal‚ Marcelo del Pilar‚ Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena‚ although he neither involved himself directly in that movement‚ nor later associate himself with the First
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Thomas Jefferson was an eminent inventor in the eighteenth century and his involvement as an inventor is very distinctive. Since Jefferson grew up in a family of farmers‚ he was strongly inquisitive in farming so he wanted to invent something that would make it easier. He invented an iron plow that dug deeper and averted soil erosion. To produce more of the same product he used mathematical procedures and marked outlines. There is a lot of controversy whether or not Jefferson invented the popular
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willing to contribute their resources. Similarly‚ the notion that individuals must aid one another is further verified by Singer’s Solution to World Poverty by Peter Singer. According to Singer a small donation can make a huge difference‚ “$200 in donations would help a sickly 2-year-old transform into a healthy 6-year-old” (Singer). Individuals’
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The Disease Factory: An Analysis of Peter Singer’s “Down on the Factory Farm” and the Spread of Diseases In "Down on the Factory Farm‚" Peter Singer discusses the methods that factory farmers employ to raise animals for profit and reveals the detrimental effects on the animals. These detrimental effects do not stop at the animals‚ however‚ as the conditions of factory farms affect the quality and health of the food. The move from small farms to the factory farm has increased the risk of salmonella
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The film “Spotlight” written by Josh Singer and Tom Mccarthy was a phenomenal film ‚ based on a true story on how the Boston Globe uncovered the scandal within Catholic Churches and molestation from priest in Boston. There’s a new sheriff in town looking into making some drastic changes to Boston Globe newspaper‚ his name was Marty Baron the new editor from Florida. “We need to focus on the institution‚ not the individual priests. Practice and policy; show me the church manipulated the system so
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