[8] Famine, Affluence, and Morality

This week is a famous essay – one of the most famous essays in modern ethical philosophy – called “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” written by the Australian philosopher Peter Singer in 1971. When’s the last time you donated to charity?

This is technically subject to copyright law, as Peter Singer is still alive. But this is a very famous academic essay and is widely available. You can read it for free here: https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil308/Singer2.pdf.