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Peter Singer — Portrait after a picture by Ula Zarosa (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Peter Singer

Australian moral philosopher

born 1946

3 quotes, most often on Morality.

Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.
The Most Good You Can Do (2015), Preface, p. vii
- Charity
- Morality
Speciesism⁠—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term⁠—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species.
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
- Animals
- Morality
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
The Expanding Circle (2011 edition), Afterword, p. 187
- Philosophy
- Science

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