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The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Peter Singer
Philosophy, Sacred, Life Is

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Peter Singer
Philosophy, Circles, Doe
Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.187, Princeton University Press

Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

Peter Singer
Philosophy, Believe, Thinking
Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.225, Oxford University Press, USA

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Peter Singer
Philosophy, Views, Triumph
"'Last Generation': A Response". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 16, 2010.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Peter Singer
Good Life, Philosophy, Faces

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