SINGER, Peter, Questions d’éthique pratique

Peter Singer ’ s Hegelianism : the Social Context of Equality

PETER SINGER Under Fire The Dangerous Ethicist Faces His Critics

Responding to Global Poverty: Review Essay of Peter Singer, The Life you can Save

Most affluent people are at least partially aware of the great magnitude of world poverty. A great many of the affluent believe that the lives of all people everywhere are of equal fundamental worth when viewed impartially. In some contexts, at least, they will also assert that people ought to prevent serious suffering when they can do so, even at significant cost to themselves. But these same ...

Intellectual Strangers No More? Peter Singer and Roman Catholicism on Ecological Concern

Peter Singer’s approach to ethics as a utilitarian preference seems to have little to say to Christian ethics. But for a host of important issues, and in particular for those related to ecological ethics, this article argues that this perception is fundamentally mistaken. When comparing Singer’s views to a Roman Catholic approach, we find that their disagreement with regard to ecological concer...

Peter Singer and 'lives not worth living'--comments on a flawed argument from analogy.

The Australian bioethicist Peter Singer has presented an intriguing argument for the opinion that it is quite proper (morally) to deem the lives of certain individuals not worth living and so to kill them. The argument is based on the alleged analogy between the ordinary clinical judgement that a life with a broken leg is worse than a life with an intact leg (other things being equal), and that...