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, ...
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Peter Singer Utilitarianism PeterSingerasserts that utilitarianism implies a moral obligation to be a vegetarian. Utilitarianism holds that the right actions‚ or what we ought to do‚ are those actions that are expected to produce the best overall consequences‚ provide maximum utility‚ ...
PETER SINGER AND UTILITARIANISM The paper argues that Peter Singer's argument for utilitarianism is a failure, and that repairing the argument requires learning from the lesson of Rousseau and Kant. It points out that, like Singer, Rousseau's argument for the social co... S Buckle 被引量: ...
Lesson 2: Utilitarianism Lecture 3 Notes (Contractarianism/Hobbesian Social Contract Theory) Lecture 4 Notes (Contractualism/Kantian Ethics) Lecture 5 Notes: Judith Jarvis Thomson and Don Marquis Lecture 6 Notes (Warren and Singer) Lecture 7 (Tooley and English) Lecture 8 (Norcross and Regan) Lect...
Peter Singerutilitarianism本論文旨在探討,彼得辛格「動物解放」的倫理觀點.動物解放運動是為了對抗,制度性剝削動物的情形,辛格則為此一激進的主張,提出嚴謹的哲學性... 邱曉芬 - 《臺灣師範大學環境教育研究所學位論文》 被引量: 14发表: 1999年 辛格的動物倫理學研究 彼得.辛格(Peter Singer)主張要將動物從痛苦中...
Charles Goodman, consequentialism, Mencius, obligation, Peter Singer, Śāntideva, utilitarianism Last time, I observed Peter Singer’s proposed radical revision of our moral views – the claim that, when we keep money that we could give to help the starving or diseased without major sacrifice,...
Peter Singer 點擊卡片即可翻轉 👆 -Singer is an Australian philosopher who taught at Monash University for several decades, and since 1999 has held a position at Princeton University in the USA. -Singer holds to a purer version of utilitarianism. This makes him a very controversial philosophe ...
because they want to promote their self interest. Thoughallthe discrimination arguments should be handled through utilitarianism: one lifeequalsone life‚ no matter of species‚ more often than not humans utilize egoism to make their arguments. I believe thatSingeris right in his argument because...
IntroductionIn this paper I would like to compare two forms of utilitarianism: the late eighteenth-century doctrine systematized by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the philosophy advocated by its most visible contemporary proponent, Peter Singer (1946-). Here is how the latter introduces the ...