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The Most Good You Can Do

How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically

Peter Singer Peter Singer

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English
Text Publishing Company
27 April 2016
Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer presents a

challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has

emerged from his work on some of the world's most pressing problems.

Effective

altruism requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving:

a substantial proportion of our money, and time, should be donated to

the organisations that will do the most good with those resources,

rather than those that tug the heartstrings.

Singer introduces us

to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in

accordance with these ideas, and shows how, paradoxically, effective

altruism often leads to profound personal fulfilment.

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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   198g
ISBN:   9781925240986
ISBN 10:   1925240983
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically

`The Most Good You Can Do is an important book. Reading it may change your life and save someone else's.' * Australian Book Review * `Singer makes a strong case for a simple idea-that each of us has a tremendous opportunity to help others with our abilities, time and money. The Most Good You Can Do is an optimistic and compelling look at the positive impact that giving can have on the world.' * Bill and Melinda Gates * 'Forty years on from Animal Liberation, Peter Singer is still challenging our complacency with his advocacy for new ideas and movements...In clear prose, Singer weaves effective altruism into a timely and convincing ideology.' * Books & Publishing * 'Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.' * New Yorker * `Peter Singer is a public intellectual par excellence.' * Monthly * `Peter Singer's status as a man of principles and towering intellect-a philosopher extraordinaire, if you will-is unrivalled in Australia.' * Sydney Morning Herald *


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