Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, is Founder of the nonprofit organization The Life You Can Save. His books include
Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), Rethinking Life and Death, The Point of View of the Universe, co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, One World Now, Ethics in the Real World, Why Vegan?, and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, also with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. In April 2021, W.W. Norton published his new edition of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass. In 2013, he was named the world's third "most influential contemporary thinker" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. He is a co-author (with Shih Chao-Hwei) of the forthcoming The Buddhist and the Ethicist (Shambhala Publications, December 2023).
墨尔本——在一个见证了两次世界大战、纳粹大屠杀、斯大林古拉格、柬埔寨杀戮场以及卢旺达和目前达尔富尔更多暴行的世纪,我们正在取得道德进步的观点似乎很难站得住脚。但道德进步所涉及的内容绝不仅仅局限在道德崩溃的极端案例。
今年是联合国大会通过《世界人权宣言》的60周年纪念日。为了应对第二次世界大战中所发生的罪行,《宣言》试图确立这样一个原则:那就是每个人都拥有同样的基本权利,而上述基本权利不受种族、肤色、性别、语言、宗教或其他状况的限制。于是,我们也许可以通过检验在与种族和性别歧视斗争方面所取得的成就,来判断我们究竟在多大程度上实现了道德进步的目标。
评估种族和性别歧视的实际减轻程度是一个异常艰巨的任务。尽管如此WorldPublicOpinion.org不久前进行的民意调查在这个问题上赋予了人们某些间接的启示。
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