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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
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The Failure of Parfett
The final two volumes set to me it seems like a mess. The project is too hard. He's not thinking marginally enough. To make all of consequentialism and maybe Kantianism compatible I just don't think it can be done. Why did he fail? I would say he became so committed to the idea that he had to show that morality is objective. Otherwise nihilism is true, nothing matters, and his whole life would be a waste.
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