@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 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=508879} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=508879} }