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Suffering-Focused Ethics

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Suffering-Focused Ethics

By: Magnus Vinding
Narrated by: Randal Schaffer
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The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so far these have not been presented in a single place. Suffering-Focused Ethics provides the most comprehensive presentation of suffering-focused arguments and views to date, including a moral realist case for minimizing extreme suffering. The book then explores the all-important issue of how we can best reduce suffering in practice, and outlines a coherent and pragmatic path forward.

©2020 Magnus Vinding (P)2021 Magnus Vinding Ethics & Morality Philosophy Metaphysical

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Critic reviews

"An inspiring book on the world’s most important issue. Highly recommended." (David Pearce, author of The Hedonistic Imperative and Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering?)

"Suffering-Focused Ethics will change its readers, opening new moral and intellectual vistas. This could be the most important book you will ever read." (Jamie Mayerfeld, professor of political science at the University of Washington, author of Suffering and Moral Responsibility and The Promise of Human Rights)

"Magnus Vinding methodically and convincingly argues for the overwhelming ethical importance of preventing and reducing suffering, especially of the most intense kind." (Jonathan Leighton, founder of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering, author of The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe)
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I cannot recommend this audiobook enough. It might be the most important thing you listen to, ever.

The arguments laid out are extremely persuasive, and ought to revolutionise your world view and the way that you live your life. They did did for me.

It’s very well narrated, and I struggled to stop listening - as if it were a thriller.

Extremely important and urgent reading, well narrated

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