About this philosophy book
The Most Good You Can Do : How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of __Animal Liberation__. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the "most good you can do." Such a life requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: to be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how, paradoxically, living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself. __Doing the Most Good__ develops the challenges Singer has made, in the __New York Times__ and __Washington Post__, to those who donate to the arts, and to charities focused on helping our fellow citizens, rather than those for whom we can do the most good. Effective altruists are extending our knowledge of the p
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Singer
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300180275
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.81 / 5 (104 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14