More by Peter Singer
Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans for the same purpose?
The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981)
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.
Practical Ethics, 3rd Edition (2011)
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