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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty is a 2009 book by Australian philosopher Peter Singer, in which the author argues that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally if they do not act to end the poverty they know to exist in developing nations.
Inspired by Peter Singer's 1971 essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", [1] Unger argues that for people in the developed world to live morally, they are morally obliged to make sacrifices to help mitigate human suffering and premature death in the third world, and further that it is acceptable (and morally right) to lie, cheat, and steal to mitigate suffering.
Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective.
A common criticism of Singer's essay is the demandingness objection. For example, the "supposed obligation" of Singer's essay has been criticised by John Arthur in 1982, [8] by John Kekes in 2002, [9] and by Kwame Anthony Appiah in 2006, [10] and Singer's claim of a straight path from commonsense morality to great giving has also been disputed ...
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is a 2002 book about globalization by the philosopher Peter Singer. In the book, Singer applies moral philosophy to four issues: the impact of human activity on the atmosphere; international trade regulation (and the World Trade Organization ); the concept of national sovereignty; and the distribution of aid.
The 17-year-old singer who is blind spoke about her dreams of becoming an acclaimed singer like Whitney Houston and hopes of winning a Grammy, before impressing Cowell and fellow judges —Heidi ...
When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself is a 2009 non-fiction book by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. The book was first published on June 24, 2009, through Moody Publishers and explores and dissects common perceptions on poverty and the means to relieve it, from a Christian perspective. [1]
The book suggests that, whereas the majority of the 5 billion people in the "developing world" are getting richer at an unprecedented rate, a group of countries (mostly in Africa and Central Asia but with a smattering elsewhere) [2] are stuck and that development assistance should be focused heavily on them. These countries typically suffer ...