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Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’ appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs in 1972. It is a thoughtful and direct essay. Singer claims that a certain moral principle is true. He claims that it implies that affluent people such as ourselves ought to give very substantial assistance to the poverty-stricken victims of natural disaster in East Bengal. He goes further; he claims that ‘the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society’ needs to be altered. He anticipates various objections to his argument, and states his replies. He closes with a short discussion of the extent to which professional philosophers ought to try to influence public policy. The paper has been widely reprinted, and has become a sort of modern classic. I think it deserves this status. The moral principle to which Singer appeals is roughly this:
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