Wednesday, February 04, 2009 / 6.30 for 7pm
Peter Singer
Venue: NSWTF Auditorium 37 Reservoir St Surry HillsCost: $15/$12 conc. gleeclub
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‘Most of us are absolutely certain that we wouldn’t hesitate to save a drowning
child, and that we would do it at considerable cost to ourselves. Yet, while
thousands of children die each day, we spend money on things we take for
granted, and would hardly miss if they were not there. Is that wrong? If so,
how far does our obligation to the poor go?’ Peter Singer
According to the World Bank 1.4 billion people live on less than US$1.25 per
day. This entails a vast amount of suffering and avoidable loss of life.
The Life You Can Save offers a solution to world poverty. If enough of us can
be moved to act—to make some moderate sacrifices in our lives - huge numbers of
people could be saved from death and suffering. And if the world’s wealthiest
10 per cent of people were to donate a fraction of their income, extreme
poverty on a large scale could be eliminated altogether.
With his trademark clarity, logic and intellectual flair, world renowned
philosopher Peter Singer, will talk about a solution that is not only possible,
but is also one we have a moral obligation to be part of.
‘Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly
among the most influential.’ New Yorker
‘Peter Singer’s status as a man of principles and towering intellect—a
philosopher extraordinaire, if you will—is unrivalled in Australia. And for
good reason…his devotion to rational thought gives him a near-unique capacity
in the philosophical world to use well structured and lucid prose to explicate
for the lay reader some of the most fraught ethical issues of modern times.’
Sydney Morning Herald
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne in 1946, and educated at the University of
Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of
Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
since 1999, a position that since 2005 he has combined with an appointment as
Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for
Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. An internationally renowned philosopher
and acclaimed author of over 25 books on ethics, Singer is best known for
Animal Liberation, widely credited with starting the animal rights movement.
His most recent book, The Ethics of What We Eat, was a 2006 bestseller.
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