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Book: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
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  1. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics,

    The moral unity to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. . . . At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. -W. E. H. LECKY, The History of European Morals
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  2. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics,

    In explaining the importance of understanding our biology, Dawkins writes; "Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something which no other species has ever aspired to.
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  3. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics,

    If our holding certain values had no effect at all on what we chose to do, values would lose all their importance. Now
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  4. Peter Singer _ The Expanding Circle: Ethics,

    Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act.
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