Affluence

With Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Peter Singer, a moral philosopher and professor at Princeton University, offers an alternative to the Western world’s current ethical situation: choosing to prioritize the life and suffering of others or choosing to prioritize luxuries and an overly comfortable life. Ultimately, Singer makes clear the idea that one should give as much as one can without expense to oneself if it will benefit others and that all men who are capable are obligated to do the same…

Singer is a promoter of effective altruism. He argues that people should not only try to reduce suffering, but reduce it in the most efficient manner possible. In particular, he develops some of the arguments made in his 1972 essay Famine, Affluence and Morality, in which he implies that citizens of rich nations are morally obligated to give at least some of their disposable salary to charities that help the global poor. He supports this by using an analogy about a drowning child, which…

In the two articles, “Famine, Affluence, And Morality” by Peter singer and “ World Hunger And Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer” by John Arthur Talks generally about ethics, To be more specific, they talk about the self of need of what is the moral right thing to do and the duty of what is someone 's job as a human to do for others. Both have different arguments and to get straight to the point, Singer believe that the right moral thing to do is help others when you can regardless of the…

In “Famine, Affluence and Mortality”, Peter Singer sets out to critique how those in affluent countries have a moral obligation to give and do far more to help those who are suffering than they actually do. According to singer, human beings and governments have the capability to prevent suffering in other parts of the world and have not done enough to help. He uses the situation in Bengal as an example because it has arguably the most extreme and largest-growing problem in the world. Individuals…

In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer discusses the moral obligation of humans to prevent bad things from happening. In particular, Singer focuses on the prevention of the famine in East Bengal during November 1971 where many people were dying from poverty. Singer argues that since global poverty may be inhibited through charitable donations, then individual people ought to be morally obligated to donate what Singer defines as their surplus of money to charities that will aid…

a different and unique living situation and may have risen up from poverty themselves, therefore, citizens living in affluent countries do not need to give up luxuries and much of one’s income to aid in global poverty. In his article, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, Peter Singer attempts to convince his…

Anyone can agree that lack of food, shelter and medicine could be drastically devastating to an individual or even a community as a whole. In Peter Singer article “Famine, Affluence and Morality” he argues that people who live in affluent countries like the United States have a moral obligation to give back to those who are in need. By giving back to famine relief, disaster relief etc. we must radically change our way of thinking in order to help others. While Singer’s arguments prove that…

Moral Comparability In Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer, he argues that we are morally obligated to donate as much money to charity as we can to help limit poverty in the world. Singer explains that there are many people in the world suffering from poverty, and living very poor-quality lives as a result of poverty. He argues that poverty is morally wrong because of the suffering it promotes. Singer believes it is the moral obligation of humans to donate as much as they can…

(Intro) Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat ethics” are contradictory philosophical works that examine whether scarce resources should be shared with the poor. Singer’s argument is that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad" (Singer, 1972); therefore all people become morally obligated to help the poor. While Hardin argues that ethics of a Lifeboat should be followed because there is a finite amount of resources…

The Poverty There are so many moral issues in the world, such as poverty, abortion, drugs, sex, LGBT and many other issues. Poverty is one of the most important issues of concern. In general, poverty could be described as two different kinds. One is spiritual and the other one is physical. Everyone wants to get out from both spiritual and physical poverty. People should understand what the poverty really is before they do any action for that. Because if they know the solution of both spiritual,…