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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Peter Singer
Born: July 6, 1946 (age 77)
Bio: Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
Known for:
- Animal Liberation (1975)
- Practical Ethics (1979)
- The Life You Can Save (2009)
- The Most Good You Can Do (2015)
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