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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Who is right or wrong? Who is right or wrong? Phi 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Ashford University Instructor Victor Reppert 5/4/2013 Phi 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Ashford University Instructor Victor Reppert 5/4/2013 Heather Foultz Discussion on Peter Singer Famine Affluence‚ and Morality. Over the argument in this work and the goals in his article. Heather Foultz Discussion on Peter Singer Famine Affluence‚ and Morality. Over the argument in this work and the goals in his
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I’m against vegetarianism‚ but I don’t like the fact that harming animals has to come along with me eating meat. Torment is bad whether it’s human or animal. Most humans have the ability to live a very healthy life without even being a carnivore. Now‚ here are a few reasons people become vegetarians: health issues‚ religion‚ and their dislike animal slaughter. Most vegetarians probably feel that you eat meat‚ than you might as well have killed the animal yourself. As humans we have to eat to stay
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“If it is within our power to prevent something very bad from happening‚ without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant‚ we ought‚ morally‚ to do it.” Peter singer is an Australian philosopher and would say we have a duty to help the global poor. Many people have more than enough money to make small donations but don’t even though it would not affect them at all. Lots of people are selfish and lazy and don’t think to help the poor even though some philosophers would claim we are responsible
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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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and it’s also the key to understand and be understood. Human beings start to acquire language from the moment they are born. We can say that language and communication are the heart of the human experience whether communication is face to face‚ in writing‚ in signs‚ in body language etc. When spoken language is compared with other forms of communication‚ we can affirm that only humans are able to use real language to communicate. Animals for sure are capable to generate a multitude of sounds‚ which
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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‚ he questions the ethical significance of the idea that all human beings have a certain kind of
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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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Human Rights: Consequential or Deontological View? Consequential ethics and deontological ethics (DE) mutually maintain that there is a right action that we morally ought to do. However‚ these normative ethical theories differ in the derivation of what is valued. In the case of human rights‚ both accounts are supportive of human rights‚ but for different reasons. Deontological ethics has as its basic thrust‚ the concept of a duty to do what is right. For one’s actions to be
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