
#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
Within Reason
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Ethics Is Grounded in Egoism
I mean there seems to be good evolutionary reasons that we would develop a system of desires and wants that are based upon what brings us our own pleasure. It makes sense to care about other people for essentially self-interested purposes, he says. I don't see why by saying that ethics is grounded in my own well being nothing else that I wouldn't be able to have just as much care for my fellow creature as you would, argues the philosopher.
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