Author: Peter Singer
Translator: Gyu-jin Ham
Publisher: Sanchaekja
273 pages | 222*143mm
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About This Book
This is the right time to ask yourself: “What should I be doing to
help?”
For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate
world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a
billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for
bottled water. And though the number of deaths attributable to poverty
worldwide has fallen dramatically in the past half-century, nearly ten
million children still die unnecessarily each year. The people of the
developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs
on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the
solution.
In The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter Singer, named one of “The
100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time magazine, uses ethical
arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples, and
case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to
world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible.
Singer contends that we need to change our views of what is involved in
living an ethical life. To help us play our part in bringing about that
change, he offers a seven-point plan that mixes personal philanthropy
(figuring how much to give and how best to give it), local activism
(spreading the word in your community), and political awareness
(contacting your representatives to ensure that your nation’s foreign
aid is really directed to the world’s poorest people).
In The Life You Can Save, Singer makes the irrefutable argument that
giving will make a huge difference in the lives of others, without
diminishing the quality of our own. This book is an urgent call to
action and a hopeful primer on the power of compassion, when mixed with
rigorous investigation and careful reasoning, to lift others out of
despair.
About the Author
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton
University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty
books, including Animal Liberation, widely considered to be the founding
statement of the animal rights movement, Practical Ethics, and One
World: Ethics and Globalization.
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