Happiness and Ultimate Good with Peter Singer

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  • Опубликовано: 30 ноя 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]

Комментарии • 31

  • @lkcuupa
    @lkcuupa Год назад

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

  • @GWWCFTW
    @GWWCFTW 12 лет назад +4

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

  • @AaronDut
    @AaronDut 11 лет назад +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.

  • @rmeddy
    @rmeddy 12 лет назад +1

    nice I think he's coming to Trinidad

  • @erichawthorne2519
    @erichawthorne2519 Год назад

    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.

  • @LukaszStafiniak
    @LukaszStafiniak 11 лет назад

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

  • @karinaandersen2618
    @karinaandersen2618 9 лет назад +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 7 лет назад +1

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

  • @vanderbilt4918
    @vanderbilt4918 11 лет назад

    Thanks, I always dig some Singer.

  • @hammyjojo23
    @hammyjojo23 11 лет назад +1

    Fayetteville

  • @dexterwaweru8687
    @dexterwaweru8687 12 лет назад

    Interesting

  • @stephenblackman2003a
    @stephenblackman2003a 11 лет назад

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

  • @kschacherer92
    @kschacherer92 4 месяца назад

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

  • @godlessheathen100
    @godlessheathen100 5 лет назад +1

    Vacuous, pretentious nonsense. Singer always makes me chuckle.

    • @stewartmoore5158
      @stewartmoore5158 4 года назад +3

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

  • @hammyjojo23
    @hammyjojo23 11 лет назад

    Figer

  • @asdffdsa165
    @asdffdsa165 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +3

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

    • @asdffdsa165
      @asdffdsa165 9 лет назад

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

    • @mmetc041
      @mmetc041 9 лет назад

      Sources?

    • @asdffdsa165
      @asdffdsa165 9 лет назад

      search guardian peter singer 20% in google first link

    • @Mplay213
      @Mplay213 8 лет назад +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 11 лет назад +2

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

  • @jeannettewilke205
    @jeannettewilke205 3 года назад

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

  • @114100116
    @114100116 7 лет назад +1

    Boring af

  • @pamelabibby180
    @pamelabibby180 6 лет назад

    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