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Do we have more of a moral obligation to save a child dying a preventable death right in front of us than we do to stop the millions of preventable childhood deaths that occur each year across the globe? After all, a donation to the right charity could very well save a child’s life. According to the contemporary Australian philosopher Peter Singer, saving those directly in front of us while conveniently ignoring suffering in faraway places presents us with a moral problem worth facing and correcting.
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History of science
Meet the Quaker pacifist who shattered British science’s highest glass ceilings
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Values and beliefs
Why a single tree, uprooted in a typhoon, means so much to one man in Hanoi
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Meaning and the good life
Leading 1950s thinkers on the search for happiness in trying times
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Ethics
Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
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Animals and humans
Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?
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Political philosophy
The radical activist couple who fought for social change in the courtroom
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Human rights and justice
Can providing humanitarian aid be illegal? A troubling case from the US-Mexico border
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Personality
A ‘dumpster archeologist’ reconstructs strangers’ stories via what they’ve discarded
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Bioethics
Is it ethical to have a second child so that your first might live?
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