The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Mark and Wes interview perhaps the world’s most influential living philosopher, then the full foursome discusses. Our focus is his ongoing work rooted in his 1971 essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” about the warped priorities of our consumerist society: We spend money on luxuries while innocent children overseas die from inexpensively preventable causes. For more about Peter, see www.petersinger.info.
End song: “Ann the Word” by Beauty Pill (2015), explored in Nakedly Examined Music #19.
What do we owe the poor? Mark and Wes interview perhaps the world’s most influential living philosopher, then the full foursome discusses. Our focus is his ongoing work rooted in his 1971 essay “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” about the warped priorities of our consumerist society: We spend money on luxuries while innocent children overseas die from inexpensively preventable causes. For more about Peter, see www.petersinger.info.
End song: “Ann the Word” by Beauty Pill (2015), explored in Nakedly Examined Music #19.
Does doing the most good you can do just mean giving the most money to the world’s poor?
This is an obvious cross-reference for this group—indeed, many of you likely already read it. Peter Singer and Agata Sagan have an column in NYTimes’ “The Stone” today called “Are We Ready for a Morality Pill?” They present the conundrum of the how to factor in our growing understanding of the effect of brain chemistry not just on our mood and Continue Reading …
In this series of videos of Bryan Magee interviewing a young Peter Singer, Singer provides an explication of Hegel’s overall philosophical enterprise. We’ve linked to Magee’s show in other places (like here, here and here) and in this interview we get to see Peter Singer actually doing traditional philosopher-type stuff. He has an outstanding ‘stach and nice square coke-bottle specs. Continue Reading …
Seth reviews Julian Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly Podcast
Discussing Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, and modern utilitarian Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.”)
End song: “So Whaddaya Think?” by Mark Lint and the Fake (2000).
Discussing Jeremy Bentham’s An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation chapters 1-5, John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism, and Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.”
