Comment on "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" by Peter Singer. A brief evaluation E-Book

Tim Windbrake

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Theoretical (Realisation, Science, Logic, Language), grade: First Class Honours, London School of Economics, language: English, abstract: This essay claims that Singer’s argument, "We ought to be preventing as much suffering as we can without sacrificing something else of comparable moral importance", is valid but unsound. It acknowledges his overall purpose to alleviate absolute poverty, and his more recent attempts of rewriting the concept to make his conclusion less demanding and thereby more appealing to a broader audience. Nevertheless, this essay will solely focus on the strong version of his initial argument.