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How To Live An Ethical Life With Moral Philosopher Peter Singer
The Rich Roll Podcast
Are You Making Judgments, Adjudicating Better and Good?
The 19th century utilitarian Henry Sidwig spoke about taking the point of view of the universe. He was an agnostic really rather than atheist, but he wasn't saying that the universe has a point of view. Then you can see that your own well being is no more important from that perspective than that of any other being who can have similar kinds of experiences of pain or pleasure. And so we should try to reduce the pain and agony that is experienced and increase the pleasure and happiness, because that's what we want for ourselves.
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