An unusual Australian Singer
Looks like Triple J has gone highbrow. This morning as I drove to work, Adam and Wil on the breakfast show had a segment featuring world renowned ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, an Australian who is now the Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.
I vividly remember my ethics courses at medical school which strongly featured the theories of Peter Singer. Amongst other things he proposed ethical justification not only for euthanasia and abortion, but also for infanticide when a child is born with a severe disability. He also contended that a human baby is of no greater moral value than an animal. Needless to say none of us could really stomach these propositions, but it made for some lively discussions and debates in our ethics class.
Anyway Singer is an interesting guy to check out. There’s a great summary article about him here which gives a bit of a bio, synopsis of his theories and links to much more about him (and against him).
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