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Samadieh M, Mollayousefi M, Safarzadeh Maleki A. The Critic of “The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically”. jpt 2023; 3 (3) :235-246
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The Critic of “The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically”
M. Samadieh *1, M. Mollayousefi2, A. Safarzadeh Maleki1
1- Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran
2- Department of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, Faculty of Islamic Sciences and Researches, Imam Khomeini International University, Ghazvin, Iran
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Effective Altruism has discussed helping others both in the domain of theoretical foundations and in the domain of practical foundations. In fact, helping others includes helping other humans, animals, the environment, and any other thing that improves the conditions of men and the world, and the discussion of this issue is of a background as ancient as human existence itself. The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer, one of the contemporary thinkers in practical ethics, contains four parts and fifteen chapters. The book has discussed the issue of helping others in a very proper and, of course, effective and applied manner, and it is unique in its specific domain; but the most significant point of weakness of this book is its negligence of the role of global organizations in prevention from war, etc., which in turn can play an effective and even fundamental role in the domain of altruism. 
 
Keywords: Peter Singer, Effective Altruism, Altruism, Philanthropia, Practical Ethics
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Article Type: Book Review | Subject: Philosophy of Ethics (Modern)
Received: 2023/06/20 | Accepted: 2023/09/5 | Published: 2023/09/11
* Corresponding Author Address: Faculty of Humanities, University of Maragheh, Madar Square, Maragheh, Iran. Postal Code: 5518183111 (samadieh@maragheh.ac.ir)
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