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Mo­ral advocacy

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 17:37 UTC by Pablo

Moral advocacy is the set of activities aimed at promoting moral values considered to be beneficial.

Further reading

Baumann, Tobias (2017) Arguments for and against moral advocacy, Cause Prioritization Research, July 5.

Christiano, Paul (2013) Against moral advocacy, Rational altruist, June 13.

Tomasik, Brian (2013) Values spreading is often more important than extinction risk, Essays on reducing suffering, April 6.

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