Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Głód, dobrobyt i moralność)

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Singer wrote the essay in late 1971, when people in East Bengal were dying for lack of food, shelter and medical care and millions had fled to India, and published it in 1972 in the first volume of Philosophy & Public Affairs. Its central principle states that if it is in our power to prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought to do it. Distance and the number of others who could also help make no moral difference. Singer concludes that the traditional line between duty and charity cannot be drawn where it usually is, and that people in affluent countries should give far more. The essay became a standard text in ethics teaching and inspired the effective altruism movement.

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• Utylitaryzm1863 · John Stuart Mill

Więcej dzieł: Peter Singer

• 1975Wyzwolenie zwierząt
• 1979Etyka praktyczna