How To Live An Ethical Life With Moral Philosopher Peter Singer

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Rich Roll

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Today’s guest has dedicated his life to answering these questions with actionable, sustainable solutions. Meet the world’s most influential living philosopher, Peter Singer. The grandfather of both the modern animal rights and effective altruism movements, Peter is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, who has published several books on our moral responsibility to alleviate suffering. Since its original publication in 1975, his groundbreaking work "Animal Liberation" has awakened millions of people to the existence of speciesism—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. His book "The Life You Can Save" and the nonprofit organization of the same name focus on how we should respond to extreme poverty and how doing good for others can bring fulfillment to your own life. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Athletic Greens: https://www.athleticgreens.com/richroll Squarespace: Squarespace.com/RichRoll InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll Voicing Change II: richroll.com/voicingchangeII Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:44.7	For me to live in ethical life, it's not enough just to say, I'm going to obey some simple
0:59.2	moral rules like don't steal, don't cheat, don't hurt other people.
1:03.4	You have to think also about what can I do positively given the advantages that I have
1:09.1	and the problems that we have in the world.
1:11.9	It's often easier to see how you can relieve suffering than how you can boost happiness.
1:17.8	Some people say you should be a negative utilitarian and only focus on reducing pain and suffering.
1:24.8	I don't think that's right, at least theoretically it's not right because if you could greatly
1:29.9	increase the happiness of large number of people and do that without causing any suffering
1:35.4	or maybe cause mild headaches to a few people, clearly that would be the right thing to
1:39.6	do.
1:40.6	So it's not that the positive doesn't count at all in the scales.
1:44.8	It's just that given the way the world is, the negative pain and suffering is so much
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