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Of course, you believe you WOULD save a drowning child.
But that doesn’t make you a saint – in fact, depending on how you live the rest of your life, it could well make you a sinner.
For 50 years, PETER SINGER has been making uncomfortable observations like that.
Peter is perhaps the world’s most influential philosopher - he’s shaped the way we think about animals and bioethics, abortion and euthanasia.
And he's the philosophical father of the Effective Altruism movement - a quiet revolution that's transformed doing good from sentiment into science.
GUEST:
Professor Peter Singer is Emeritus Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and National University of Singapore
His Bold Reasoning substack is here
His book The Life You Can Save is free to download
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Of course, you believe you WOULD save a drowning child.
But that doesn’t make you a saint – in fact, depending on how you live the rest of your life, it could well make you a sinner.
For 50 years, PETER SINGER has been making uncomfortable observations like that.
Peter is perhaps the world’s most influential philosopher - he’s shaped the way we think about animals and bioethics, abortion and euthanasia.
And he's the philosophical father of the Effective Altruism movement - a quiet revolution that's transformed doing good from sentiment into science.
GUEST:
Professor Peter Singer is Emeritus Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and National University of Singapore
His Bold Reasoning substack is here
His book The Life You Can Save is free to download

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