Wierzbicka, Anna (1997). Peter Singer and Christian ethics. Quadrant, 41(4), 27-31.
Abstract:
“Is there still anything to live for?” asks Peter Singer in the first sentence of his 1995 book How are we to live? Ethics in an age of self-interest. For most people, at least in the West, he replies, life is the pursuit of a narrowly conceived self-interest. Singer argues that this kind of life is neither fulfilling nor worthwhile, and he proposes an alternative, namely, “living ethically”.
This paper critically discusses Singer’s views and, in the process, formulates some of Jesus’ teachings as well as a number of ethical scripts for various forms of self-interest in the universal and semantically simple terms used in the NSM approach (which is not named as such in the paper).
Rating:
Research carried out by one or more experienced NSM practitioners
