The 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas
January 8th 2009 23:05
Renowned philosopher offers world poverty solution
Renowned Australian-born philosopher Peter Singer will speak on solving world poverty as a special guest of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on Tuesday 3 February at 6.00pm in the Grainger Studio, 91 Hindley Street Adelaide.
Peter will speak from his new book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Tickets for the talk are $10.00 and may be purchased from Imprints Bookshop on 8231 4454 or online at books@imprints.com.au
According to the World Bank 1.4 billion people live on less than US$1.25 per day. This entails a vast amount of suffering and avoidable loss of life.
Through his new book Peter Singer offers a solution to world poverty. If enough of us can be moved to act - to make some moderate sacrifices in our lives - huge numbers of people could be saved from death and suffering. And if the world's wealthiest 10 per cent of people were to donate a fraction of their income, extreme poverty on a large scale could be eliminated altogether.
With his trademark clarity, logic and intellectual flair, world renowned philosopher Peter Singer shows us not only that this solution is possible, but also that we have a moral obligation to be part of it.
'Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.' New Yorker
'Peter Singer's status as a man of principles and towering intellect - a philosopher extraordinaire, if you will - is unrivalled in Australia. And for good reason - his devotion to rational thought gives him a near-unique capacity in the philosophical world to use well structured and lucid prose to explicate for the lay reader some of the most fraught ethical issues of modern times.'Sydney Morning Herald
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. He has been Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University since 1999, a position that since 2005 he has combined with an appointment as Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. An internationally renowned philosopher and acclaimed author of more than 25 books on ethics, Singer is best known for Animal Liberation, widely credited with starting the animal rights movement. His most recent book, The Ethics of What We Eat, was a 2006 bestseller.
The full list of speakers for the 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas will be released on 3 February. The 2009 Adelaide Festival of Ideas will be held from 9 -12 July.
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