Peter Singer

Is Charity the Answer to World Poverty? In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer discusses multiple scenarios where individuals are put in situations where they must decide between their needs and others. He believes individuals can save the life of another by sacrificing some wealth or material possessions. This simplistic solution to a problem that has present for decades fails to address certain issues. One such problem with his solution is the variability between the…

After attaining a degree in bioethics, a professor by the name of Peter Singer recently ventured to provide the world with an answer to the question that had been protruding the minds of many philosophers. Singer claims, “The formula is simple: whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.” Although Singer’s argument proposes an idea that could be beneficial towards…

and the Equality of Animals”, Peter Singer advocates against the use of animals in satisfying the needs of humans, and placing the interests of the humans above those of other species (277). Singer utilizes the term “speciesism” to describe this prejudice, which Singer finds to be no different than racism and sexism, and questions the exploitation of nonhumans by illustrating how one is not entitled to exploit another due to higher intelligence (277). In addition, Singer cites a passage from…

Liberal, and Peter Singer’s ethical view will be present. To begin, a utilitarian is someone moralist, who believes that the value of a thing or subject depends on utility or usefulness to a higher pleasure. Singer’s view on human life is more utilitarian due to him being against human rights. Human rights definition is to give equality to all genders, races, religion, origin, or any other status. He finds himself in a controversy with the Conservatives and Liberals over…

prevented. The world is home to genocides, famines, war, orphans, and homelessness, all while also harboring food wastage, one dollar sandwiches, and private jets. It is human nature to try to right perceived injustices, and there clearly are many. Peter Singer believes the way to right the scales is to have the prosperous donate all the money they do not need for their direct survival. This solution, though made with noble intentions is horribly misguided. It is important with an argument such…

Regarding Gandhi, a spiritual humanist who lived from 1869 to 1948, and Peter Singer, a secular humanist who was born in 1946, spiritual humanists and secular humanists share most of their point of view. However, even if they share the same point of view on most points, their motivation will sometimes be different, but will be the same on other points. The main points that will be discussed to confirm my thesis will be animal care, environment and euthanasia. In order to prove my point, the…

In the book, The Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason, many things are covered about the “ethical choices that surround food” (pg. 4). They follow and study three American families, whose diets, lifestyle, and beliefs are all different. While with these families, they are gathering data about the foods they eat and where they come from. In the second half of the book, they follow the Motavalli-Masarech family. Jim and Mary Ann, with their 2 daughters, are considered “conscientious…

Morals are the standards of what is good and what is evil or what is right and wrong. Moral values govern the behaviour, decisions and feelings of an individual. When determining wether it is morally acceptable to experiment on animals, such views as Peter Singer’s speciesism, Rene Descartes’ Cartesian theory and Immanuel Kant’s Kantian ethics can be used to examine both sides of this question. Speciesism proposes that experimenters indicate a failure to give equal consideration to the interests…

control of the information they want to present to the masses. However, one question that has lingered since the conventional times and that is “what we want to keep private and what we want to make public” (Singer, pg 59.); where should be the line drawn. This debate is discussed by Peter Singer in Visible Man Ethics in a world without secrets. One of the points he makes is that privatization is a concept that is more fashionable and acquainted with the Americans of today. They take it as…

Utilitarianism is the concept illustrated by John Stuart Mill as the maximization of human happiness. (He relates utility to the “greatest happiness principle,” a concept by philosopher Jeremy Bentham.) Mill describes happiness as “pleasure and the absence of pain.” Something of extrinsic value has worth only because of the value or benefits it brings to something else; something of intrinsic value has worth because of the value it possesses even while alone. According to Utilitarianism,…