Arguments of Peter Singer PHI200: Mind and Machine (ABT1315A) April 19, 2013 Singer’s goal in the article “Famine, Affluence and Morality” is to get people to think differently about famine relief, charity, and morality. These are key issues that people need to be more aware of and act on them. People who are financially stable and well off should take more of an active role by giving more. They should feel obligated in helping those in need. There are many people suffering severely,
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Peter Singer provides an argument by analogy by using Bob and his precious Bugatti. This argument by analogy starts when Bob decides to park on the railroad tracks and gets out of his car. Bob, then notices a boy playing in the distance on the other side of the tracks. Suddenly, Bob notices a train headed straight for the child on the tracks. Bob has the opportunity to save the child’s life by pulling the lever that would send the train down the other side of the tracks leading to his precious Bugatti
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Famous Thinkers Paper Peter Singer Peter Singer was born on July 6th 1946 in Australia. His family escaped Austria during the World War II from Nazis. Most of his relatives died in Nazi camps because they were Jews. Singer is considered to be one of the most influencing living thinkers however he was also called as the best-known vegetarian, and the most dangerous man in the World. He received death threats because of his beliefs and opinions. As he said in an interview for Policy Innovation
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Running Head: Peter Singer’s Beliefs 1 In reading his article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Peter Singer gives us a seemingly devastating critiques of our ordinary ways of thinking in regards to famine relief, charity, and morality in general. In the spite of this there are some very few people that have accepted, or at any rate acted on, the conclusions he has reached. In aspect of these facts one could possible say of Singer’s arguments, as Hume said of Berkeley’s arguments for immaterialism
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Guilt T PHI 208 January 7, 2013 Peter Singer’s goal in “Famine, Affluence and Morality” was to try and to get people all around the world to realize that they, as human beings, have a moral responsibility to help other human beings in need if they can. He argues that the way we view moral issues and our moral conceptual schemes need to be altered, and in fact the whole way in which our society takes our way of life for granted. Peter Singer’s argument is that “if it is in our power to prevent
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In Peter Singer’s paper on “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” he explores the possibilities of each and every American giving up about 2/3 of their income. However, rather than simply talking about his own solution as another theory, he tells the reader in so many words that they are wrong. In this paper, I will argue that Singer fails to establish that we are morally required to give to charity. In Peter Singer’s paper he makes the claim that we ought to give up any surplus money we might have
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Morality Peter Singer’s argument deals with what occurred in East Bengal, where in 1971 people would die because of not having food, shelter or medical care. Singer sees this as a devastating way of live and his argument can be identified as people dying from the lack of these objects can be seen as bad. “I begin with the assumption that suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad.”(Singer) Singer believes that most people would agree with this argument because people
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Peter Singer – “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Harold N. Johnson PHI 208 Elliott Crozart February 3, 2014 In the article Peter Singer gives a critique of our ordinary ways of thinking about famine relief, charity, and morality in general. With the conclusions he draws from the article, very little action is taken. The fact presented by him answers no questions and presents zero conviction. His main goal or idea is to present you with his arguments and persuade people and the government
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Dreams versus Reality In Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” he claims that people should give up until the point that by giving further they would be suffering just as much if not more than those we are attempting to help. However, I will show how he fails to address the risks and moral dilemmas that the resulting transportation of those goods and services would cause. Peter Singer asserts that poverty, famine, disease are bad, and claims that we should give until that point that
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solutions. Peter Singer has initiated an argument over the solution to poverty in what he and many others feel is a suitable course of action. Peter’s argument is this “The formula is simple: whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away”. This would have everyone in the world not in poverty donating one third of all wealth to poverty, as that is the average percentage of money spent on luxuries per the average family or person. The pros of this argument would be
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