The Plant Yourself Podcast

Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555

May 19, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

Peter Singer on the Plant Yourself Speaking Tour

1min

Animal Liberation Now

2min

Ethics in the Real World

3min

The Importance of Philosophy

3min

The Importance of Practical Ethics in Philosophy

2min

The Difference Between Ethics and Decency

3min

The Difference Between System Thinking and System Thinking

2min

The Tools of a Philosopher

4min

10.

The Importance of Teaching Ethics in the Real World

2min

11.

The Importance of Disagreement in Philosophy

3min

12.

How to Settle Debates in Philosophy

5min

13.

The Importance of Suffering

3min

14.

The Importance of Being a Moral Patient

4min

15.

The Role of Reason and Emotion in Spiritual Theology

5min

16.

The Aversion to Absolutism in Animal Experiments

2min

17.

The Importance of Impartiality

2min

18.

Animal Liberation Now

2min

19.

The Last Day of Planting a Strawberry Plant

2min

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Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he's got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now.

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