Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency

彼得·辛格想要打破你的道德自满。

The Interview

社会与文化

2024-11-02

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The controversial philosopher discusses societal taboos, Thanksgiving turkeys and whether anyone is doing enough to make the world a better place.
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  • Tennis teaches you not to be distracted from being in the very present at every moment that you're out there competing.

  • It's more important to be present in life than even on a tennis court.

  • That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.

  • Read more@nytimes.com UBS Agassi that's nytimes.com UBS A G A S S I.

  • From.

  • The New York Times, this is the interview.

  • I'm David Marchese.

  • Maybe it sounds corny, but in my own little way, I really do try to make the world a better place.

  • I think about the ethics of what I eat, I donate to charity,

  • I give time and energy to helping those less fortunate in my community.

  • And according to Peter Singer, those efforts pretty much add up to bupkis.

  • Singer is arguably the world's most influential living philosopher.

  • His work rose out of utilitarianism,

  • the view

  • that a good action is one that within reason maximizes the well being of the greatest number of lives possible.

  • He spent decades trying to get people to take a more critical look at their own ethics and what well meaning,

  • comfortable people can actually do to make the world a better place.

  • His landmark 1975 book, Animal Liberation helped popularize vegan and vegetarian eating habits.

  • His new book Consider the Turkey builds on those ideas as a polemic against the Thanksgiving meal.

  • And his writing on what the wealthy owe the poor, which is a lot more than they're giving,