PHIL 2020 : Final Exam 2020
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Diaz 2: in the most good you can do by peter singer, has the main focus of what it is like to be an effective altruist. Singer explains that this concept is when someone is, Sufficiently concerned about the welfare of others to make meaningful changes in their lives , (singer, 75). Singer establishes this by developing a doctrine for being an effective altruist by using ideas, provided by, henry sidgwick and rickard keshen. These understandings can be grasped through the reasoning of capacity. Found in the text, sidgwick uses these to express his thoughts of dictate of reason, this means that we were only rational beings, we would be more motivated to act. Diaz 3 this the reason why singer relies on sidgwick"s idea of the maxim of benevolence . What keshen implies is that he combines what the two principles, singer uses for effective altruism into one.
