The Point Of View Of The Universe: Sidgwick And Contemporary Ethics
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Originally published | 2014 |
Authors | Peter Singer |
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek | |
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ID | 2047288 |
About The Point Of View Of The Universe: Sidgwick And Contemporary Ethics
What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other. . . .