Sunday, January 31, 2016
Sing-ing Lear
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I'm going to start by saying that I love reading Peter Singer, and I stand with him on moral issues that are a part of my heart. His sol...
College and Lear
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The "Why Us" Essay has become the most dreaded part of applications for many students. After going through the application process...
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Relative happiness
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In his book,Viktor Frankl suggests that love and happiness must be balanced out by suffering. He sites the fact that some prisoners find ext...
Save the Children!!
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Singer's article felt like a big guilt trip to me. He kept bringing up dying and starving children, as if the knowledge of their existen...
Singer's solution to poverty
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While Singer's idea would provide a solution to poverty, the terms of his arrangement need work. His argument is based on the idea that ...
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The Philosopher, the Prisoner, and the Art Teacher
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." -Friedrich Nietzsche on suffering "As the prison...
Halfway to Compassion
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Obviously I have never experienced anything even remotely close to the terrible things that happened at Auschwitz, so it struck me as odd th...
What is our obligation to give?
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Singer presented a very interesting idea in his article, the thought of giving all of the money you spend on luxuries to international organ...
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Response to the Criticisms of Singer
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In Peter Singer's piece, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty", the reader is forced to confront a rather uncomfortable reali...
Suffering To Understand Humanity
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Victor Frankl speaks of the world and of humanity with a humble, deeper understanding of the way humans process pain and attempt to spare th...
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." True or False?
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I have always believed that suffering makes a person stronger--not always in body--but definitely in mind. Feeling emotional pain can toughe...
Who's Singing this Man's Praise?
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The principle argument behind Singer's article is that people should work their hardest to help those in need. However, he takes a utili...
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Valuable Suffering
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There are a lot of sayings about having to experience pain to know happiness. My favorite being DJ Khaled's saying, "You have to go...
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Let Them Eat Cake
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As many people seem to have said, Singer's "solution" to poverty is completely unrealistic and going to work approximately, hm...
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The Singer Solution - Not Realistic
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Poverty is still one of the biggest issues in the world today. Thousands of people die from starvation each day and millions of people are h...
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Suffer for your (He)art
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I can't say I've been through anything nearly as bad as a concentration camp, but I have definitely been through situations in which...
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Quantifying our Charitable Burden
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Singer addresses the obligation of the well-off to the world's poor. Rather than a time-consuming global redistribution of wealth and in...
Singer Hits a Foul Note
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The argument that Peter Singer makes is not terribly complex, and is easy for many to understand: society must become less materialistic in ...
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Singer's Not So Superb Solution
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In the article "The Singer Solution to World Poverty", author Peter Singer attempts to analyze the differences in morality of cert...
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Singer Feels the Bern
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Peter Singer probably feels the Bern. Or atleast more so than Donald Trump, Hilary Cinton, Ted Cruz, or umm, err, uhh Ben Carson. Now Bernie...
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