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Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective.
Animal Liberation, book, published 2002.
Contents:
-All animals are equal...
-Tools for reasearch...
-Down on the Factory farm...
-Becoming a vegetarian...
-Man's dominion...
-Speciesism today...
The central argument of the book is an expansion of the utilitarian idea that "the greatest good of the greatest number" is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour.
Singer believes that there is no reason not to apply this to other animals, arguing that the boundary between human and ‘animal’ is completely arbitrary.
There are more differences between a great ape and an oyster, for example, than between a human and a great ape, and yet the former two are lumped together as ‘animals’ whilst we are ‘human’.
He popularized the term "speciesism", which was originally coined by Richard D. Ryder, to describe the practice of privileging humans over other animals.
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective.
Animal Liberation, book, published 2002.
Contents:
-All animals are equal...
-Tools for reasearch...
-Down on the Factory farm...
-Becoming a vegetarian...
-Man's dominion...
-Speciesism today...
The central argument of the book is an expansion of the utilitarian idea that "the greatest good of the greatest number" is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour.
Singer believes that there is no reason not to apply this to other animals, arguing that the boundary between human and ‘animal’ is completely arbitrary.
There are more differences between a great ape and an oyster, for example, than between a human and a great ape, and yet the former two are lumped together as ‘animals’ whilst we are ‘human’.
He popularized the term "speciesism", which was originally coined by Richard D. Ryder, to describe the practice of privileging humans over other animals.
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He specialises in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, preference utilitarian perspective.
Animal Liberation, book, published 2002.
Contents:
-All animals are equal...
-Tools for reasearch...
-Down on the Factory farm...
-Becoming a vegetarian...
-Man's dominion...
-Speciesism today...
The central argument of the book is an expansion of the utilitarian idea that "the greatest good of the greatest number" is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour.
Singer believes that there is no reason not to apply this to other animals, arguing that the boundary between human and ‘animal’ is completely arbitrary.
There are more differences between a great ape and an oyster, for example, than between a human and a great ape, and yet the former two are lumped together as ‘animals’ whilst we are ‘human’.
He popularized the term "speciesism", which was originally coined by Richard D. Ryder, to describe the practice of privileging humans over other animals.