The Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics

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Singer, Peter, 1946–

The most good you can do: how effective altruism is changing ideas about living ethically / Peter Singer.

pages cm. — (Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-18027-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Altruism. 2. Ethics. I. Title.

BJ1474.S56 2015

171’.8—dc23

2014035965

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