Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality by Peter Singer The Elements of Reason #8 1. Use two or three sentences to state the main purpose or argument in this article. In other words‚ what is the argument the author is making? (This should be a specific argument. We all know that the authors are writing about morality and ethics.) The main purpose or argument in this article is that Peter Singer believes that richer nations should give assistance to other nations
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something bad from happening at a comparatively small cost to yourself‚ you are obligated to do so.” Peter Singer is a philosopher who believes that we have an obligation to help those in need. I agree with his statement from the book Exploring Ethics that‚ “It is not beyond capacity of the richer nations to give enough assistance to reduce any further suffering to very small proportions.”(Singer pg.244 ) He believes that rich nations can help either as individuals or as a group‚ to prevent those
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Paper1 Rough Draft Response to The Visible Man by Peter Singer In a democracy‚ it is important that the government has less privacy than the people so that the government does not acquire too much power‚ this is because democracies are only possible when the people are in power‚ the right to privacy leads to power‚ and democratic governments answer to the people‚ so the people should be able to monitor their government. In The Visible Man‚ Singer insinuates that internet surveillance technology
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Exegetical Peter Singer states that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally with the way they react to moral issues like helping those in need and our moral conceptual scheme needs to change. To do so‚ we need to be morally obligated to prevent bad things from happening if it does not require sacrificing something of comparable moral significance. His argument includes this principle where proximity or distance should not be taken into account when deciding whether to prevent something
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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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Peter Singer explores human moralities while expressing his concern towards the little consideration given by the wealthier regions regarding the problem that people are starving in less fortunate places. Although many people have the ability to give enough to aid in minimizing this problem‚ they have chosen to not involve themselves at all. Very few countries such as Britain and Australia have active governments that put aside money to help these refugees. Unfortunately‚ the amount of money they
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Environmental Ethics: Singer vs Regan Environmental ethics is defined: as a part of philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the nonhuman world (Wikipedia). For example‚ this includes the preservation of plants and an increase of animal rights. Peter Singer and Tom Regan both argue that animals need a greater voice than their own in the debate of ethical treatment. Despite their very different philosophical views‚ Singer and Regan want
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Synthesis Tom Regan‚ Carl Cohen‚ Peter Singer Animal rights are one of the most controversial issues today. There has been endless debate about whether or not animals have rights. Philosophers attempt to come up with the moral conclusions by taking in account the many different standpoints and presenting their related arguments. In his essay “The case of animal rights”‚ Tom Regan‚ a professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University‚ defends his view that the center of our moral concern
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Sagarika Reddy Philosophy Honors 03/28/16 Dr. Shorter Speciesism and Moral Status In his work Speciesism and Moral Status‚ Peter Singer compares the behaviors of humans with cognitive disabilities to the behaviors of nonhuman animals. He argues that all human beings do not have cognitive abilities that exceed that of all nonhuman animals. In fact‚ many nonhuman animals have cognitive abilities that surpass the cognitive abilities of human beings with severe mental retardation. Through his argument
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“Explain Singer’s distinction between sentience and self-consciousness‚ and what the distinction implies for the moral status of animals. Do you believe non-human animals have the same or a different moral status to human animals? Explain the basis of your answer.” More than three decades ago Peter Singer heralded the need for a new kind of liberation movement‚ one calling for a radical expansion of the human moral canvas and more importantly‚ a rejection of the horrors human beings have inflicted
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