Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-05-27
Books mentioned on Are You An Evil Person For Eating Meat? - Peter Singer - #633
Peter Singer is a philosopher, creator of the ethical veganism movement, bioethicist, Princeton University professor, and author. Do animals possess the capacity to suffer?
Peter Singer discussed Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ethics in the Real World
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer is a collection of accessible essays exploring pressing moral issues, poverty, animal welfare, and applied ethics.
Discussed“I suggest instead say in my book the life you can save I suggest more reasonable percentages of incomes that scale up as you earn more”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Animal Liberation
“it's nearly 50 years since you first published animal liberation why we release the book now”
Plugged Animal Liberation
“well you know has have we made progress for Animals over the time since you wrote Animal Liberation um I wanted to answer that question”
Plugged Animal Liberation
“there were virtually no vegans when in 1975 when the book was published there are now I think supposed to be 1.3 million vegans in the United Kingdom”
Plugged Animal Liberation
“um in animal Liberation now I think I mentioned three of them one in England one in Germany and one here in Australia”
Plugged Animal Liberation
“and he happened to come across my animal Liberation at the same time”
Plugged Animal Liberation Now
“I didn't really think much about it in the early versions of the book but I have a few pages about it in animal Liberation now”
Plugged The life you can save
“I suggest instead say in my book the life you can save I suggest more reasonable percentages of incomes that scale up as you earn more”