Happiness and Ultimate Good with Peter Singer

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
  • (Visit: www.uctv.tv) There is widespread agreement that happiness is good, but is it the sole ultimate good? Princeton University Professor Peter Singer explores arguments for and against such a conclusion. He considers the implications for public policy that take happiness as one of the most important goods that individuals can achieve. Singer specializes in applied ethics, approaching ethics from a secular preference utilitarian perspective Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [11/2012] [Humanities] [Show ID: 24344]

Komentáře • 31

  • @lkcuupa
    @lkcuupa Před rokem

    Everyone should be happy, deserve it. I use energy to find mine

  • @GWWCFTW
    @GWWCFTW Před 12 lety +4

    This guy makes so much damn sense, love it :-)

  • @AaronDut
    @AaronDut Před 10 lety +1

    Sam Welter There's a huge difference between downgrading the life of a human being or upgrading the life of other animals, which is what Singer does. He doesn't want ANY animal to be killed.

  • @erichawthorne2519
    @erichawthorne2519 Před rokem

    No. Happiness is not a suitable general moral metric. The reason is that people, and probably other animals with some cognitive capability, have, or should have, a neutral happiness default setpoint. This allows happiness to perform its function in life, which is to react (change level) either positively or negatively to new stimuli or situations that the organism encounters, and thereby guide thought and action to steer the organism toward more beneficial outcomes. Positive happiness is, and functionally should be, a transient state. So it is not a moral end in itself.

  • @rmeddy
    @rmeddy Před 12 lety +1

    nice I think he's coming to Trinidad

  • @LukaszStafiniak
    @LukaszStafiniak Před 11 lety

    Peter Singer's co-author: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek

  • @vanderbilt4918
    @vanderbilt4918 Před 11 lety

    Thanks, I always dig some Singer.

  • @hammyjojo23
    @hammyjojo23 Před 11 lety +1

    Fayetteville

  • @karinaandersen2618
    @karinaandersen2618 Před 9 lety +3

    Wonderful man love listening to him, don't always agree with Peter, but I love the way he thinks, I am an anti theist,

    • @pamelabibby7170
      @pamelabibby7170 Před 7 lety +1

      I HATE THE WAY THE SICKOTHINKS U MUST BE SICK TO SOD THE BAD PAST SINGER DESERVES TO DIE

  • @dexterwaweru8687
    @dexterwaweru8687 Před 12 lety

    Interesting

  • @kschacherer92
    @kschacherer92 Před 2 měsíci

    is doo-er a correct australian pronunciation of dour? australia is weird

  • @stephenblackman2003a
    @stephenblackman2003a Před 11 lety

    what's the name of singer's co-author?

  • @godlessheathen100
    @godlessheathen100 Před 5 lety +1

    Vacuous, pretentious nonsense. Singer always makes me chuckle.

    • @stewartmoore5158
      @stewartmoore5158 Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah, how awful for a person to care about the suffering of conscious beings. What's a dunce!

  • @hammyjojo23
    @hammyjojo23 Před 11 lety

    Figer

  • @asdffdsa165
    @asdffdsa165 Před 9 lety +2

    Just found out he gives 20% of his $200,000 a year salary to charity. I think that's a bit weak coming from him, personally.

    • @michellestorm9278
      @michellestorm9278 Před 9 lety +3

      +magget16 i think its more then you give...

    • @asdffdsa165
      @asdffdsa165 Před 9 lety

      +Michelle Storm I am not working at the moment, when I did I gave 30% of $25k a year

    • @mmetc041
      @mmetc041 Před 8 lety

      Sources?

    • @asdffdsa165
      @asdffdsa165 Před 8 lety

      search guardian peter singer 20% in google first link

    • @Mplay213
      @Mplay213 Před 8 lety +4

      +magget16 It says he donates 20% to oxfam and unicef. I doubt this is true because if you go to his website (thelifeyoucansave) they aren't even in his top recommended charities.

  • @samwelter6083
    @samwelter6083 Před 11 lety +2

    WHAT!?!? THAT SUIT HAS CHILDREN'S LIVES SEWN IN IT! YOU'RE KILLING BABIES! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

  • @jeannettewilke205
    @jeannettewilke205 Před 3 lety

    He does not look one inch happy himself. Bitter, twisted misanthrope vomiting up crap.ò

  • @114100116
    @114100116 Před 6 lety +1

    Boring af

  • @pamelabibby180
    @pamelabibby180 Před 5 lety

    IT WORKS OUT IN THE END HAPPINESS THAT WOULD BE IF EVIL SINGER DIED SOD WHAT HORRIBLE PEOPLE SAY AND REMEMBER SINGER IS AA PIDO