{"id":85140,"date":"2009-04-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/apr\/22\/ethics-philosophy"},"modified":"2009-04-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T17:00:00","slug":"razib-khan-unlike-singer-confucius-recognised-the-natural-impulse-to-impose-a-heirarchy-on-the-value-of-human-life-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/22\/razib-khan-unlike-singer-confucius-recognised-the-natural-impulse-to-impose-a-heirarchy-on-the-value-of-human-life-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Razib Khan: Unlike Singer, Confucius recognised the natural impulse to impose a heirarchy on the value of human life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Singer, Confucius recognised the natural impulse to impose a heirarchy on the value of human life \u2013 and his ideas endured<\/p>\n<p>No one will deny that Peter Singer can provoke. Most recently, in The Life You Can Save, Singer lays out a utilitarian argument for attacking world poverty, extending ideas from his 1971 essay, Famine, Affluence and Morality. Certainly the facts are indisputable, and the logic crisp.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/apr\/22\/ethics-philosophy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Singer, Confucius recognised the natural impulse to impose a heirarchy on the value of human life &ndash; and his ideas endured<\/p>\n<p>No one will deny that Peter Singer can provoke. Most recently, in The Life You Can Save, Singer lays out a utilitarian argument for attacking world poverty, extending ideas from his 1971 essay, Famine, Affluence and Morality. Certainly the facts are indisputable, and the logic crisp.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/belief\/2009\/apr\/22\/ethics-philosophy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,107,665,152,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charitable-giving","category-ethics","category-global-development","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96981,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85140\/revisions\/96981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}