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Питер Сингер — австралийский философ. Именной профессор биоэтики Принстонского университета.

✵ 6. Июль 1946
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“We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”

Peter Singer книга Animal Liberation

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

“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).

“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”

Peter Singer книга Animal Liberation

Источник: Animal Liberation

“To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.”

Peter Singer книга Practical Ethics

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.

“There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur.”

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.

“Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.”

Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 3, From Evolution To Ethics?, p. 61

“Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.”

Peter Singer книга Animal Liberation

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)

“Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.”

Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 5, Reason And Genes, p. 145

“Speciesism—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.”

Peter Singer книга Animal Liberation

Источник: Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal

“Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.”

Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 172

“There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.”

Источник: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 119