by Peter Singer · Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London · tapa dura · ISBN 9780330454582
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In 'The Life You Can Save', Peter Singer makes a compelling argument about our moral obligation to act against extreme poverty. The book explores how affluent societies can make a significant difference in the lives of those struggling to survive on minimal resources. Singer not only presents a deep ethical analysis, but also offers practical and accessible solutions for readers to contribute to alleviating global suffering. This book is a call to action to rethink our responsibility towards others and adopt a more generous and effective approach to addressing global inequality.
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
