Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2023-01-30
Books mentioned on How To Live An Ethical Life With Moral Philosopher Peter Singer
Today’s guest has dedicated his life to answering these questions with actionable, sustainable solutions. Meet the world’s most influential living philosopher, Peter Singer.
Rich Roll discussed Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. Peter Singer recommended The life you can save by Peter Singer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer is a foundational philosophy text that galvanized the modern animal rights movement by arguing against the moral permissibility of animal exploitation.
Discussed“and in the in the context of the reduction of suffering this is this is kind of the you know the the landscape from which you're thinking on animal Liberation emanates and I want to get to that but I kind of want to put that aside for now”
Where to get it
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The life you can save
The Life You Can Save: How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty by Peter Singer is a foundational work of moral philosophy and effective altruism that argues affluent individuals have an ethical obligation to alleviate extreme global suffering.
Recommended“you can go to the life you can save dot org and you can look at the Charities that we recommend and click on get more details on each one”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he's published several books on our moral responsibility to alleviate suffering including the highly influential book animal Liberation and the life you can save both of which are books we cover in this conversation”
“he's published several books on our moral responsibility to alleviate suffering including the highly influential book animal Liberation and the life you can save both of which are books we cover in this conversation”
“well um perhaps I was uh a little naive about how easy it might have been to to change these deeply ingrained habits and to combat major industries”
“the organization that I founded that recommends effective Charities recommends a couple that do restore sight”
“I wrote a book back in the 80s called the expanding Circle in which I talked about the way in which throughout human history we have pushed the boundaries of our moral sphere outwards”
“I also wrote a book uh called One World um was published just after 9 11 and uh in that I was looking towards the strengthening of global institutions”
“so Charlie Bressler who's the person who with whom I really co-founded the life you can save was before he read the book that I wrote the life you can save um president of uh uh men's clothing retail chain in the United States”
“so in fact yeah it was initially published by random house um and at some point uh Charlie said let's try and get the rights back so that we can make it free”