Peter Singer Quotes About Intuition

• I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Issues, Intuition

• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

• Según el utilitarismo clásico, el único bien intrínseco es la felicidad; el único mal intrínseco es el dolor. Eso implica que no hay valor intrínseco en preservar la naturaleza, que preservar una planta en peligro sólo es valioso si beneficia a los humanos o a otros animales. Intuitivamente, eso parece erróneo, pero quizá no deba fiarme de mi intuición.

  Peter Singer

  Dolor, Animal, Intuición

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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