Our world is beautiful and prosperous for some, and a living hell for others.
Greed and exploitation are making the rich even richer at the expense of the most vulnerable. Global famine and poverty persist despite there being more than enough money to solve them, and humanity as a whole continues to neglect the needs of non-human life at the cost of our planet’s longevity.
Facing these existential problems, we’ve turned to political leaders, journalists and commentators to try and find answers, but perhaps we shouldn’t. None of them can do the work of a philosopher; someone who has dedicated their life to wrestling with existential questions.
Each individual (yes, that includes you!) needs a moral foundation from which to live and base the thousands of decisions we make everyday. Put simply, we need philosophy. And as Kwame Anthony Appiah recently said, “Few academic philosophers have ever had the impact of Peter Singer”.
