Singer’s work inapplied ethicsand his activism in politics were informed by hisutilitarianism, the tradition in ethical philosophy that holds that actions are right or wrong depending on the extent to which they promotehappinessor preventpain. In an influential early article, “Famine, Affluence, ...
Synonyms Animal suffering; Factory farming; Preference utilitarianism; Speciesism; The ethics of eating; Vegetarianism Introduction Peter Singer became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. His research is strictly connected with food and eating as he investigates ...
Explain the Preference Utilitarianism ofPeterSingerPreference Utilitarianism is based on the idea that a good action is one that maximises the preferences ofallinvolved so that my own want‚ needs and desires cannot apply to everyone. Utilitarianism is a teleological or consequentialist approach to et...
Employing both hedonistic and preference utilitarianism, Peter Singer argues for abortion and infanticide. This essay challenges his arguments from the per... N Iwasa - 《Ssrn Electronic Journal》 被引量: 2发表: 2010年 The Cosmos of Duty: Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics by Roger Crisp (revi...
You mention in the new book that you have recently become more sympathetic to hedonistic utilitarianism (at least as of your 2014 book, The Point of View of the Universe) as an alternative to preference utilitarianism. Have your views on this continued to evolve in the last year or two, an...
this article analyzes Peter Singer's preference utilitarianism theoretical proposal and studies its scope and limitations in relation to advocating for equal treatment towards nonhuman animals. First, I will present Singer's theoretical model, followed by an analysis of t...
The article focuses on the arguments of Peter Singer for utilitarianism. It states that Singer views that people should live according to ethical standards, in which they could justify their chosen ways of living. It states that a justification is not ethical if it would only benefit the self-...
Peter Singer notes that one of the 'two significant changes" of his 'underlying ethical views" consists in dropping the tentative suggestion that 'one might try to combine both the "total" and the "prior existenc...
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Analyzes the philosophical position of one of the advocates of active euthanasia, Peter Singer. Singer's theoretical position; Doctrine on sanctity of life; Wrongness of killing; Preference utilitarianism; Classical utilitarianism; Forms of euthanasia; Arguments for legalization of voluntary euthanasia; ...