@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Singer,Peter},
subject = {Ethics},
note = {I XIII
Ethics/P. Singer: In the third edition of my Practical Ethics(1), I have made a transition towards an ethics that assumes more objective ethical truths. This is partly due to the reading of Derek Parfits book "On What Matters"(2).
I 4
Ethics/P. Singer: Where does our ethics come from? Observations on animals such as chimpanzees show that higher animals have a sense of reciprocity.
>Animals.
Nature/P. Singer: it is a mistake to believe that everything natural is good and we just have to follow our natural intuitions.
>Nature, >Intuitions, >Good, >Values.
P. Singer: Thesis: we have inherited the standards from our ancestors. Our task is to find out which of these must be changed.
>Community, >Society.
I 9
Ethics/P. Singer: how can we distinguish between ethical and unethical behavior?
>Ethics.
Objectively, we can distinguish whether someone acts according to our conventions, according to his conventions, or after no conventions at all.
>Objectivity.
I 10
Convention: a mere self-interest will not be considered an ethical behavior. Why?
Solution: Ethics must stand on a broader basis than the interests of the individual.
>Generalizability,
> Universality, >Interest.
1.Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press (2011)
2. Derek Parfit, On what Matters, Oxford (2011).},
note = { SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015
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