- Ethics, Self-interest, Social ethics
Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often avoid the trap of meaninglessness, finding a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing than those people whose goals are narrower and more self-centered.
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- Author
- Peter Singer
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books, Oxford University Press, Text Pub. Co.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780879759667
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Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.
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