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“We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”
Источник: Animal Liberation
“The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.”
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 149
Источник: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian
'Last Generation': A Response http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/last-generation-a-response/, New York Times, June 16, 2010.
“I am a utilitarian. I am also a vegetarian. I am a vegetarian because I am a utilitarian.”
Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 9(4): 325 (1980).
Источник: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
Источник: Animal Liberation
Источник: Writings on an Ethical Life
Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYNY2oKVWU, 2009.
Источник: Practical Ethics
Контексте: Speciesism is an attitude of prejudice towards beings because they're not members of our species, so just as racism means that you're prejudiced against beings who are not members of your race and sexism means you're prejudiced against people of the other sex. So we humans tend to be speciesist in we think that any being that is a member of the species homo sapien just automatically has a higher moral status and is more important than any being that is a member of any other species, irrespective of the actual characteristics of those beings.
Источник: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 120
Источник: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 4: Becoming a Vegetarian
an act which it would be good to do, but not wrong not to do. On the contrary, we ought to give the money away, and it is wrong not to do so.
Famine, Affluence, and Morality http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm, 1972.
Interview with the Jewish Chronicle https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/peter-singer-is-he-really-the-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world-1.34980, Dan Goldberg, 16 August, 2012.
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 3, From Evolution To Ethics?, p. 61
“Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.”
Preface
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975)
“We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.”
Introduction (p. xv)
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 5, Reason And Genes, p. 145
Источник: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 172
Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 119