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.
发自墨尔本——许多年前,当我和太太开车载着三个年幼的女儿出行时,其中一个突然问了一句:“爸爸妈妈你们是希望我们聪明一点呢,还是快乐一点呢?”
这一幕在上月我读到蔡美儿(Amy Chua)在华尔街日报上发表的文章《中国妈妈为何更卓越》时又浮现在了脑海。这篇为她的新书《虎妈战歌》做宣传的文章一经发表就掀起了轩然大波,读者在华尔街日报网站上发表了4000多篇评论,Facebook上的回帖更是高达10万。而该书也立刻跻身于畅销书之列。
按照蔡美儿的理论,中国孩子之所以比美国孩子更成功,是因为他们背后都有一位“虎妈”,而西方母亲相比之下只能算是小猫,甚至什么都不是。蔡美儿从不允许她的两个女儿索菲亚和路易斯看电视,打游戏,在同学家过夜或者参与学校活动,而是让她们每日苦练钢琴或小提琴。而这都是为了能让她们在除体操和戏剧之外的所有科目中名列前茅。
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