And there wasn’t really enough forthcoming. India appealed for help to look after this vast number of people that they’d suddenly acquired and had to shelter and feed and so on. So, when I was a graduate student in Oxford, it was at the time of the crisis in what was then East Pakistan and became Bangladesh, when the Pakistani army repressed the autonomy movement of Bangladesh, or of East Pakistan, and nine million refugees fled across the border from that oppression, across the border into India. I never wanted to study philosophy just for the sake of my own learning or even of influencing just my academic colleagues.
Peter: I was interested in philosophy being practical, that is, in it having an impact in the world. So what got you first interested in seeing that people use their charitable dollars in a fashion that would relieve the greatest amount of suffering and do the most good? Good evening, Peter, and welcome to The Business of Giving!ĭenver: As a philosopher, Peter, there are many roads to go down. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and considered by many to be the world’s most influential living philosopher. Listen to the podcast, which is hosted by Denver Frederick, or read the transcript below.ĭenver: It was 10 years ago that the book, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty shook the world of philanthropy and got people everywhere to think about their own giving in an entirely different way and its impact has been such that a 10th Anniversary Edition, which has been updated, has just come out. “We need to draw on evidence and reasoning to think about: What is the best cause? And within that, what is the most effective organization that I can support or work with to make the biggest possible positive difference in the world?” It inspired the creation of the nonprofit the Life You Can Save and has influenced the growth of the “effective altruism” movement. The noted philosopher discusses his book The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty. This week’s Business of Giving features Peter Singer, Princeton University’s Ira W. Photo by Alletta Vaandering Peter Singer says effective altruism is a philosophy that says people should to live their lives so that at least one important aim is to make the world a better place.
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