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In May, I was privileged to have the opportunity to attend two lectures given by Peter Singer for The 10th Dasan Memorial Lectures, 2007, sponsored by the Korean Philosophical Society. Peter Singer is a world-renowned philosopher on ethics, and is the man credited with beginning the modern animal liberation movement with his groundbreaking book, Animal Liberation, published in 1975. He gave 4 lectures in all:

~ Understanding the Nature of Ethics
~ Ethics for One World
~ Ethics and Animals
~ Changing Ethics in Life and Death Decision Making

I didn’t think people outside of Korea would be aware of these or of where to obtain transcripts for them. For these reasons, I have finally gotten around to presenting them here. Click on the Peter Singer category for more.
Here are Peter’s Singer’s acknowledgments:

These lectures in part draw on and develop work that I have previously published in different form, as follows:

Lecture 1:
“Animal Liberation at 30,” New York Review of Books, vol. L, no. 8 (May 15, 2003), pp. 23-26.
“Response to Bernard Williams,” in Jeffrey Schaler, ed., Singer Under Fire, forthcoming, Open Court, 2008.

Lecture 2:
Rethinking Life and Death, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1995.

Lecture 3:
One World: Ethics and Globalization, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002.

“What should a billionaire give – and what should you give?” The New York Times Sunday Magazine, December 17, 2006.

Lecture 4:
“Ethics and Intuitions”, The Journal of Ethics, vol 9, no. 3-4 (October 2005), pp. 331-352

The first lecture I went to was “Understanding the Nature of Ethics,” held on Wednesday, May 16, at 3 pm. The venue was SNU’s Auditorium Building 73. The next one I went to, “Ethics for One World” was at Soongshil University the next day. Unfortunately, the one I really wanted to be at was in Daejeon and the last one was over the other side of town. I’d already taken enough time off work.