“Famine, Affluence, and Morality” is one of Peter Singer’s best-known philosophical essays. Here he argues that the injustice of some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible. Singer proposes that anyone able to help the poor should donate part of their income to aid poverty and similar efforts. Singer reasons that, when [...]
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Posted in Ethics on March 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Patience 1916
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930).
Amores, 1916: Patience
A WIND comes from the north
Blowing little flocks of birds
Like spray across the town,
And a train, roaring forth,
Rushes stampeding down
With cries and flying curds
Of steam, out of the darkening north.
Whither I turn and set
Like a needle steadfastly,
Waiting ever to get
The news that she is free;
But ever fixed, as yet,
To the lode [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Let the rain pitter patter
But it really doesn’t matter
If the skies are gray
As long as I can be with you (IN MY HOUSE!) it’s a lovely day
Peter Singer at Melbourne Uni
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I was fortunate to attend Peter Singer’s lecture yesterday at Melbourne uni. He filled two lecture theaters (one with an audio transfer) as he presented a paper on the crisis of world poverty. He spoke about how BIG, FAT, GREEDY wealthy countries like our own ought to do much more than the pathetically tiny amount [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As I have been unwell, my exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia is postponed until the end of this year.
Keep watching ilana-payes.org for details.
On Liberty
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our society encourages freedom of expression. Today’s artists revel in this freedom, often creating “controversial” or so-called “shock art”. Being a liberal society, we celebrate such art. It is no secret that art can provoke world-wide controversy, and controversy equals publicity. These “shock tactics” favoured by Jake and Dinos Chapman in Tragic Anatomies, (Chapman [...]
Exhibition postponed
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Visit the Jewish Museum
Pooh Bear on World Peace and our environment
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Here is a myst’ry
About a little fir-tree.
Owl says it’s his tree,
And Kanga says it’s her tree.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I could spend a happy morning
Seeing Roo,
I could spend a happy morning
Being Pooh.
For it doesn’t seem to matter
If I don’t get any fatter
(And I don’t get any fatter),
What I do.
Oh, I like his way of talking,
Yes, I do.
It’s the nicest way of talking
Just for two.
And a Help-yourself with Rabbit
Though it may become a habit,
Is a [...]
On Children and how to Exploit them…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2007 | No Comments »
This site is receiving many more hits because it mentions the words ‘nude child’
