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The Most Good You Can Do

The Most Good You Can Do

How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically

by Peter Singer and Singer Peter
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/03/2015

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Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems.


Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. It requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving, urging that a substantial proportion of our money or time, should be donated to the organisations that will do the most good with those resources, rather than to those that tug the heartstrings.


Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how, paradoxically, effective altruism often leads to greater personal fulfilment.
ISBN:
9781922182692
9781922182692
Category:
Popular philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-03-2015
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x18mm
Weight:
0.32kg
 
Peter Singer

Journalists have bestowed on Peter the tag of “world’s most influential living philosopher.” They are probably thinking of his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, often credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, and with the influence that his writing has had on the development of effective altruism. He is also known for the controversial critique of the sanctity of life ethics in bioethics.

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