Peter Singer's Ethics - Derived from Fact and Reason?

From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 13:30:45 MST

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    Interesting article from recent NY Times magazine: "The tragic view comes
    closest to describing how I now look at Peter Singer. He is a man of unusual
    gifts, reaching for the heights. He writes that he is trying to create a
    system of ethics derived from fact and reason, that largely throws off the
    perspectives of religion, place, family, tribe, community and maybe even
    species -- to ''take the point of view of the universe.'' His is a grand,
    heroic undertaking."

    Go to "Unspeakable Conversations":

    http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/

    Olga [who lost interest in Singer's "Animal Rights" at the very beginning,
    when he compared chicken sandwiches and WWII holocaust victims]

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