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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer, 2004-02-29
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer, 2004-07-15
One World: The Ethics of Globalization, SecondEdition (The Terry Lectures Series) by Professor Peter Singer, 2004-03-11
Marx (A Brief Insight) by Peter Singer, 2010-01-05
Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory: The Importance of Human Dignity by Susan Krantz, 2002-01-30
A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Peter Singer, 2001-12-06
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer, 2010-09-14
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics For Our Treatment of Animals by Peter Singer, 1976
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by Peter Singer, 2000-04
Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer
Biology by Peter Raven, George Johnson, et all 2010-01-14
Writings on an Ethical Life (ISNM) by Peter Singer, 2002-01-02
Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature) by Arna Bontemps, 2002-05-02

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The Animal Liberation Movement
(Nottingham, 1985).
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Extractions: THE ANIMAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT: ITS PHILOSOPHY, ITS ACHIEVEMENTS, AND ITS FUTURE. Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and the author of Animal Liberation , first published in 1975. His other books relevant to this essay are Democracy and Disobedience Animal Factories (with Jim Mason, 1980) and In Defence of Animals , a collection of essays by philosophers, scientists and activists in the movement, which was published in 1985. "The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?" Jeremy Bentham Over the last few years, the public has gradually become aware of the existence of a new cause: animal liberation. Most people first heard of the movement through newspaper articles, often of the "what on earth will they come up with next?" variety. Then there were marches and demonstrations against factory farming, animal experimentation or the Canadian seal slaughter; all brought to an audience of millions by the TV cameras. Finally there have been the illegal acts: slogans daubed on fur shops, laboratories broken into and animals rescued. What are the ideas behind the animal liberation movement, and where is it heading? In this essay I shall try to answer these questions. Let us start with some history, so that we can get some perspective on the animal liberation movement. Concern for animal suffering can be found in Hindu thought, and the Buddhist idea of compassion is a universal one, extending to animals as well as humans; but nothing similar is to be found in our Western traditions. There are a few laws indicating some awareness of animal welfare in the Old Testament, but nothing at all in the New, nor in mainstream Christianity for its first eighteen hundred years.
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Might Or Right -- New Internationalist
Article in New Internationalist , No. 342 (Jan / Feb, 2002).
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Extractions: How can people be protected from genocide or mass terrorism? What part do ethics play in military intervention? And can the UN be reclaimed from the bullies? In both cases, there was strong evidence that the terrorists had come from, or been trained in, the countries under threat. But Austria-Hungary had much better evidence of the involvement of elements of the Serbian Government in the plot than the US had in the case of the Taliban. The Bosnian Serb conspirators were trained and armed by members of the Serbian intelligence forces, who aided them up to the point at which they crossed the border to carry out their criminal act. Austria-Hungary presented the evidence to Serbia, demanding that it bring those responsible to justice and allow Austro-Hungarian monitors. An international court
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Evatt Foundation: Publication: My Better Nature - 04 March 2002
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Extractions: Orthodox contemporary economics is based on the assumption that people always behave self-interestedly. Drawing on his Left Darwinism, Peter Singer observes that in reality "we are often moved by motives other than self-interest", and he explains why "there is nothing in evolutionary psychology that would lead us to expect otherwise". How selfish are human beings, really? It's a perennially fascinating question. In ancient Athens, if Plato is to be believed, Socrates debated it with Glaucon, who maintained that if only we could get away with it, we would all rob and kill to achieve our own ends. Socrates argued that only ignorance of the real nature of justice could lead a person to do that. Just a century or so later, but on the other side of the planet, the Chinese sage Kao Tzu compared human nature to a pool of water: it can be made to flow to the east or to the west, depending on where one makes a breach. His opponent Mencius pounced on the analogy, saying that water nevertheless has a natural inclination, to flow downhill, and if human beings are allowed to follow their natural feelings, they, too, will incline to the good. In both West and East, these contrasting positions echo down the ages, each with its own proponents. But now that we have science, rather than mere anecdote, to answer such a question, shouldn't we be able to settle the issue once and for all?
Equality For Animals?, By Peter Singer
Chapter excerpted from Practical Ethics (Cambridge, 1979).
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Extractions: Equality for Animals? Peter Singer Excerpted from Practical Ethics , Cambridge, 1979, chap. 3 In the previous chapter I gave reasons for believing that the fundamental principle of equality, on which the equality of all human beings rests, is the principle of equal consideration of interests. Only a basic moral principle of this kind can allow us to defend a form of equality which embraces all human beings, with all the differences that exist between them. I shall now contend that while this principle does provide an adequate basis for human equality, it provides a basis which cannot be limited to humans. In other words I shall suggest that, having accepted the principle of equality as a sound moral basis for relations with others of our own species, we are also committed to accepting it as a sound moral basis for relations with those outside our own species - the nonhuman animals. This suggestion may at first seem bizarre. We are used to regarding the oppression of blacks and women as among the most important moral and political issues facing the world today. These are serious matters, worthy of the time and energy of any concerned person. But animals? Surely the welfare of animals is in a different category altogether, a matter for old ladies in tennis shoes to worry about. How can anyone waste their time on equality for animals when so many humans are denied real equality? This attitude reflects a popular prejudice against taking the interests of animals seriously - a prejudice no better founded than the prejudice of white slaveowners against taking the interests of blacks seriously. It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them. What is needed now is a willingness to follow the arguments where they lead, without a prior assumption that the issue is not worth attending to.
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On The Appeal To Intuitions In Ethics, By Peter Singer
Excerpted from Singer and His Critics (Oxford, 1999).
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Extractions: On the Appeal to Intuitions in Ethics Peter Singer Excerpted from Dale Jamieson (ed.), Singer and His Critics , Oxford, 1999, pp. 316-318 Even though it has always seemed to me so evidently erroneous, the view that we must test our normative theories against our intuitions has continued to have many adherents [...]. But now it faces its most serious challenge yet, in the form of Peter Unger's Living High and Letting Die In most versions of the trolley problem, the agent has only two options: to pull the switch or not pull the switch, to push the heavy person off the bridge or not to push. In one the agent is active, changing what would happen if he or she were not there, while in the other option, the agent does nothing. Unger introduces intermediate options, and shows that this affects the way people judge the extreme options. In other words, when presented with a choice between A and E (where A, for example, is doing nothing, and E is pushing the heavy person into the path of the trolley) people will say that E is the worse option. When presented with a choice between A, B, C, D and E (where B, C, D and E progressively save more lives by increasingly active forms of intervention) people will say that E ii the best option. The reason for this surprising result is that people see that B is better than A, C is better than B, D is better than C and E is better than D. Why should adding or deleting intermediate options affect our intuitive judgments of pre-existing options? A defender of our intuitions might argue that Unger's intermediate options are a means of corrupting sound moral intuitions, but we would need to know why that should be so When we look more closely at the options that people are inclined to reject, the picture looks quite different. The intuitive reactions are, Unger argues, based on factors much odder than not using a person as a means:
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Introduction, By Peter Singer
Excerpted from The President of Good and Evil (New York, 2004).
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Extractions: Introduction Peter Singer Excerpted from The President of Good and Evil , New York, 2004 We are in a conflict between good and evil, and America will call evil by its name. �George W. Bush, United States Military Academy, West Point, June 1, 2002 This book expounds George W. Bush�s ethic as it is found in his speeches, writings, and other comments, as well as in the decisions he has made as an elected official. It does not attempt the impossible task of covering everything he has said and done, or even every major issue of his presidency, but instead focuses on those issues that most sharply raise fundamental ethical principles and hence reveal the president�s views about right and wrong. Utilitarian Philosophers Peter Singer :: 'Introduction'
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Some Are More Equal, By Peter Singer
Article in The Guardian (May 19, 2003).
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Extractions: Some Are More Equal Peter Singer The Guardian , May 19, 2003 Thirty years ago, in The New York Review of Books , I reviewed a pioneering work of what was to become the new animal rights movement. The book was a collection of essays called Animals, Men and Morals . I headed my review "Animal Liberation", a title that invited - and received - ridicule. But I used it deliberately, to say that just as we needed to overcome prejudices against black people, women and gays, so too we should strive to overcome our prejudices against non-human animals and start taking their interests seriously. A lot has changed since the appearance of that review and of the book, also called Animal Liberation , that grew out of it. We have seen the development of an entirely new movement that has had a significant impact on the way many people think about animals. A voluminous literature on animals and ethics has sprung up, and vigorous philosophical debate continues. One of the most significant developments is how science has come to the aid of the animal movement. This may seem odd, since animal advocates who criticise the use of animals in research are likely to be painted as "anti-science". But the animal movement must take its stand firmly on the side of science - a science bound by ethical constraints on how it treats animals, just as it is bound by ethical constraints on the way it treats human subjects of research.
Humans Are Sentient Too, By Peter Singer
Article in The Guardian (July 30, 2004).
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Extractions: Humans Are Sentient Too Peter Singer The Guardian , July 30, 2004 The debate over animal experimentation appears to be moving rapidly towards a state of mutual incomprehension and deadlock. The home secretary is debating whether to allow the American animal rights activist Dr Jerry Vlasak into Britain after it was reported that he had said that killing five to 15 vivisectors could save millions of non-human lives. (He has subsequently denied that he was encouraging anyone to act in this way.) Animal activists have damaged trucks and other equipment used by construction companies working on Oxford University's new animal laboratory. Even this paper, in an editorial, likened British animal activists to al-Qaida terrorists. The outcome of this process is unlikely to be positive for either side. For those who favour experiments on animals, it will mean keeping a low profile and meeting increased security costs. For the overwhelmingly non-violent animal movement, consisting of many millions of people around the world, there is a risk of serious damage from being identified with the handful of activists who are prepared to go beyond peaceful protest.
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A Bit Rich, By Peter Singer
Article in The Age (August 22, 2004).
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Extractions: A Bit Rich Peter Singer The Age , August 22, 2004 In this election year, several members of the Howard Government have been talking about the importance of ethics and values. It started in January with the Prime Minister saying that parents were choosing to send their children to private schools because government schools are too "values-neutral". Tony Abbott has been talking up moral issues. And Treasurer Peter Costello said, in a speech at Scots Church, Melbourne, in May, "We do not have to look far to see evidence of moral decay around us". This emphasis on ethics is in curious contrast to the stance that the Howard Government boasts about taking when it comes to Australia's role in the world. The Government's first white paper on foreign policy was called In the National Interest. It asserted that foreign policy is "about the hard-headed pursuit of the interests which lie at the core of foreign and trade policy". These interests were, it said, "the security of the Australian nation and the jobs and standard of living of the Australian people", and it promised to "apply this basic test of national interest" in all that it did in the field of foreign and trade policy. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer reiterated this philosophy in a speech to the National Press Club in May 2002, and John Howard said it even more explicitly when speaking to the Sydney Institute in July 2003: "Australia's foreign policy must always serve our national interests." In everyday life, it is thought wrong for individuals to consider only their own interests, and not take into account the interests of others. Such people are called selfish. It is believed that morality demands at least some concern for others. People are urged to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Something like that is, in many traditions, Eastern and Western, a core component of living ethically. Yet the Howard Government tells people to behave ethically at home, while proclaiming that they should be selfish in their stance towards the rest of the world.
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Freedom And The Right To Die, By Peter Singer
Article first published in Free Inquiry Magazine , XXII, 2 (2002).
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Extractions: Freedom and the Right to Die Peter Singer Free Inquiry , vol. 22, no. 2, May 15, 2002 The isolation of the Netherlands as the only country in which voluntary euthanasia is legal is about to end. In October 2001 the Belgian Senate voted by almost a 2:1 margin to allow doctors to act on a patient's request for assistance in dying. The legislation is expected to pass the lower house shortly. That the Netherlands' closest neighbor is likely to be the next country to take this step should provide food for thought among those who have denounced voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands as rife with abuses. If that were really the case, why would the country that is better placed than all others to know what goes on in the Netherlands � not only because of its geographical proximity, but because most of its people are Dutch-speaking � be ready to copy the Dutch model? It is more surprising when those who are not religious, and who profess to support individual freedom, attack proposals to legalize physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Nat Hentoff's column in the last issue of Free Inquiry is an example of such attacks, and serves to show how full of holes they are ("Challenging Singer", Free Inquiry 22(1) 2002). (Hentoff's column objects to my views about both voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, but here I am concerned only with his opposition to voluntary euthanasia.) How can a secular defender of human rights argue against the idea that when and how we die is primarily our own concern, and that, especially (though I would say, not only) when we are terminally or incurably ill, we have the right to choose the time and manner of our death?
Singer, Peter
SINGER, PETER (1946– ), AustralianAmerican philosopher of ethics. Born in Melbourne and educated there and at Oxford, Singer was one of the more controversial of recent
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