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The Life You Can Save How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty: 10th Anniversary ed. Edition

Peter Singer

For the first time in history, eradicating world poverty is within our reach.

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Philosophize This!

It was mentioned as one of Peter Singer's books that popularized the concept of effective altruism and charitable giving, and was discussed as an example of his work in applied ethics.

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His books, Animal Liberation Now, Ethics in the Real World, and The Life You Can Save are all examples of him trying to accomplish this.

— Episode: Episode #209 ... Improving our world thr...

Episode: Episode #209 ... Improving our world through appli...

It was mentioned as one of Peter Singer's books that popularized the concept of effective altruism and charitable giving, and was discussed as an example of his work in applied ethics.

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His books, Animal Liberation Now, Ethics in the Real World, and The Life You Can Save are all examples of him trying to accomplish this.

But the important thing for you to know right now though is that the arguments in that book popularized by Peter Singer went on to spark an entire movement around charitable giving and online philosophical discussion called the effective altruist movement.

The Daily Stoic

The podcast briefly mentioned Singer's book, focusing on how thinking about how one's money can be used for good can make even small purchases feel morally fraught.

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I'm reading Peter Singer's a new book or you republished the one about the life you can save and it's like you know if you start to think about what your money once you begin to think about it I just...

— Episode: Professor Jennifer Baker on Understandin...

Episode: Professor Jennifer Baker on Understanding Modern S...

The podcast briefly mentioned Singer's book, focusing on how thinking about how one's money can be used for good can make even small purchases feel morally fraught.

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I'm reading Peter Singer's a new book or you republished the one about the life you can save and it's like you know if you start to think about what your money once you begin to think about it I just to think about how your money can be used for good almost every extraneous thing becomes so morally fraught as to be almost paralyzed like there was one effective altruist I was reading about who was saying that things should be priced in terms of how many children's lives could be saved at the same amount

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