Famine, Affluence, and Morality
A philosophical journal article by Peter Singer, now Princeton professor of bioethics. He discusses what the individual reponse should be to poverty in other countries.
Has been infuential on a number of people.
As philosophical journal articles go, this is easy reading. But it still requires concentration and focus.
Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 1972), pp. 229-243 [revised edition]
