Famine, Affluence, and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famine, Affluence, and Morality write by Peter Singer. This book was released on 2016. Famine, Affluence, and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as it ever was. It is published here together with two of Singer's more popular writings on our obligations to those in poverty, and a new introduction by Singer that brings the reader up to date with his current thinking.
The Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life You Can Save write by Peter Singer. This book was released on 2010. The Life You Can Save available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
The Most Good You Can Do
The Most Good You Can Do - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Good You Can Do write by Peter Singer. This book was released on 2015-04-07. The Most Good You Can Do available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An argument for putting sentiment aside and maximizing the practical impact of our donated dollars: “Powerful, provocative” (Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times). Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the “most good you can do.” Such a life requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: to be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how, paradoxically, living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself. Doing the Most Good develops the challenges Singer has made, in the New York Times and Washington Post, to those who donate to the arts, and to charities focused on helping our fellow citizens, rather than those for whom we can do the most good. Effective altruists are extending our knowledge of the possibilities of living less selfishly, and of allowing reason, rather than emotion, to determine how we live. Doing the Most Good offers new hope for our ability to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
The Moral Demands of Affluence
The Moral Demands of Affluence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Demands of Affluence write by Garrett Cullity. This book was released on 2006-09-21. The Moral Demands of Affluence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How much are we morally required to do to help people who are much worse off than us? On any credible moral outlook, other people's pressing need for assistance can ground moral requirements on us to help them—-requirements of beneficence. How far do those requirements extend? One way to think about this is by means of a simple analogy: an analogy between joining in efforts to help people at a distance and rescuing a needy person yourself, directly. Part I of Garrett Cullity's book examines this analogy. In some ways, the analogy is not only simple, but politically and metaphysically simplistic. However, it contains an important truth: we are morally required to help other people, indirectly as well as directly. But the number of needy people in the world is enormous, and their need is very great. Once we start to recognize requirements to help them, when is it morally acceptable to stop? Cullity answers this question in Part II. Examining the nature of beneficence, he argues that its requirements only make sense on the assumption that many of the interests we share in common-rich and poor alike-are interests it is not wrong to pursue.
Applied Ethics
Applied Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Applied Ethics write by Larry May. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Applied Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This best-selling text continues to fill an existing gap in the literature taught in applied ethics courses. As a growing number of courses that include the perspectives of diverse cultures are being added to the university curriculum, texts are needed that represent more multicultural and diverse histories and backgrounds. This new edition enhances gender coverage, as nearly half of the pieces are now authored by women. The new edition also increases the percentage of pieces written by those who come from a non-Western background. It offers twelve up-to-date articles (not found in previous editions) on human rights, environmental ethics, poverty, war and violence, gender, race, euthanasia, and abortion; all of these topics are addressed from Western and non-Western perspectives.
