The Most Good You Can Do - Peter Singer
Category: Self-help
Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Tags: Self-help, Misc. Non-fiction
Peter Singers books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism., Effective altruism is built upon the simple, but profound, idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good you can do. Such a life requires an unsentimental view of charitable giving: To be a worthy recipient of our support, an organization must be able to demonstrate that it will do more good with our money or our time than other options open to us. Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas and shows how living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself., The Most Good You Can Do develops the challenges Singer has made to those who donate to the arts, and to charities focused on helping our fellow citizens, rather than th
