Most Good You Can Do

Author(s): Peter Singer

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Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. It requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving, urging that a substantial proportion of our money or time, should be donated to the organisations that will do the most good with those resources, rather than to those that tug the heartstrings. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how, paradoxically, effective altruism often leads to greater personal fulfilment.

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'Peter Singer's status as a man of principles and towering intellect-a philosopher extraordinaire, if you will-is unrivalled in Australia.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Peter Singer is a public intellectual par excellence.' Monthly 'Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.' New Yorker

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, and Laureate Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Life You Can Save. Singer was born in Australia. He divides his time between New York City and Melbourne.

General Fields

  • : 9781922182692
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.321
  • : February 2015
  • : Australia
  • : March 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : English
  • : 415
  • : Paperback
  • : Peter Singer