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Delightful!
This most recent work by my favorite philosopher is something of an expanded and up to date version of the ideas expressed in his seminal 1972 essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality". The idea being, people in wealthy countries give pitifully small amounts of money to those in abject poverty in the third world - people who are so poor that their lives are in jeopardy - and thus they should give much more generously. Singer employs the familiar "Pond" thought experiment in adducing his argument, as well as the "Bugatti" thought experiment used in Peter Unger's "Living High and Letting Die", which was itself inspired by Singer's aforementioned essay. I was already familiar with Singer's views concerning the ethics of world hunger through his previous books and essays, so I was already well aware of his argument and the objections to them, which he clearly lays out in the first section of the book. Singer then goes into some detail describing the psychological difficulties posed by having very altruistic expections for charitable donations. He then addresses the epistemic difficulty of determining which charities are the most efficient, and thus, which are most worthy of our donations. The different types of aid are looked at and compared. This is, of course, an empirical matter requiriing close attention and scrutiny. Singer finishes up the book by asking how much people should really give, and comes up with a standard by which people of different income brackets donate different percentages based on how much they earn.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phương Linh
I had to read this book for school, so I initially dubbed it “pretty boring”. But immediately when I started reading it, I realized why no wonder the author, Elie Wiesel, received a Nobel Peace Prize. I hope that everyone, I greatly ENCOURAGE everyone and anyone to read this book, which pleads that the horrors of the Holocaust must never happen again. Everyone must read this book. Before I read it, I had not realized that this event, this Holocaust of the 1940s carried so much meaning, so much terror, and so much unspeakable indignity and loss. After all, the word “Holocaust” means “completely burned”. I recommend this to EVERYONE. This is one of the most moving and deepest books I have ever read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
Interesting format for a novel (based around lectures) and inherently self-satirical. Would love to discuss this one with someone...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đông A Sáng
I read and reread this book as a child.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anthony Yeo
So frustrated. This book could have been really good but after a couple terrible things in it I decided not to finish it. Seriously there is a reason my favorite books are teen fiction because I don't have to read crap. I don't want to see visual things in my head of things between old men and a young person--so disturbing. I am just plan mad about this book. Too bad because it could have been a 4-5 star book.
read it and see what you think about it
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mijika & Liuzi
I always hated the Mayfair Witches/Vampire crossover and this book was the final nail in the coffin for me. Terrible ending for two once great sagas.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tạ Hồng
A lot of good information about the Christian Progressive movement and how the far right of Christianity have taken hold of the Republican party.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thích Nhất Hạnh
great read for anyone interested in science-fiction or psychology/ sociology. The future of human-kind is a series of genetic selections. but are people happy? what is happiness? one potential candidate for genetic research asks, why should human-kind continue to survive? why should technology enable us to survive/ what is the point? One of heinlein's earlier works but so far I am intrigued.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.