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Book: The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
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  1. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics

    Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
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  2. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics

    Probably the best-known tenet of modern moral philosophy: the doctrine that there is an unbridgeable gulf between facts and values, between descriptions of what is and prescriptions of what ought to be.
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  3. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics

    Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.
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  4. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics

    The Western principle of the sanctity of human life-a principle which is unique in the sharpness with which it separates the wrongness of taking the life of any human being, no matter how severely defective, from the wrongness of taking the life of any non-human animal, no matter how intelligent-can, as I have argued elsewhere, be explained as the legacy of the Judeo-Christian world view, in which humans, but not animals, are made in the image of God and have immortal souls. For those of us who do not accept the authority of the Judeo-Christian religions, this explanation should lead to a critical re-examination of our belief in the sanctity of all and only human life. One
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  5. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics

    Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.
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