The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

London: Yale University Press (2015)
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From the ethicist the_ New Yorker_ calls “the most influential living philosopher,” a new way of thinking about living ethically.

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2016, 2020

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BJ1474.S56 2015

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9780300180275   9780300219869   9780300182415   0300219865   1665232439   0300180276

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10.12987/9780300182415
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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. What Is Effective Altruism?

2. A Movement Emerges

3. Living Modestly to Give More

4. Earning to Give

5. Other Ethical Careers

6. Giving a Part of Yourself

7. Is Love All We Need?

8. One Among Many

9. Altruism and Happiness

10. Domestic or Global?

11. Are Some Causes Objectively Better than Others?

12. Difficult Comparisons

13. Reducing Animal Suffering and Protecting Nature

14. Choosing the Best Organization

15. Preventing Human Extinction

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