Rhetorical Analysis Of The Singer Solution To World Poverty

“The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” published in the New York Times Magazine is an essay that focuses on convincing the reader to donate their extra income to charities. Singer's solution suggests that every American should stop using their money to buy luxuries but rather donate that money to charities, including UNICEF and over sea aid organizations. The opening of the piece starts with a hypothetical scenario, where Dora is put into a situation where she can choose between gaining extra cash verses saving a child’s life. The essay continues to another scenario where Bob, who is also put into a critical decision making choice, has to choose between saving his valuable car and saving a child’s life. Singer then ties together these scenarios and how

To him, the logical, thinking consciousness of a human being should always control the spirit or emotions. Aristotle, Plato’s student, discovered an important place for emotion, though, when he examined public speaking. In his studies, he realized that appeals to emotion, or pathos, played an almost equal part to logic in persuading an audience to act or think differently. Now, it seems that Aristotle’s ideas overcame Plato’s because, in the 20th century, philosopher Peter Singer practices Aristotle’s important teachings on rhetoric in his editorial “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” published in the New York Times Magazine, about the ethical contradictions that allow us to ignore the hunger and suffering of the world’s poor. Logos, of course, is an important strategy for any philosopher. Singer, though, through his hypothetical narrations, the juggling of facts and statistics, and comparisons of middle class luxuries to human necessities, appeals to the guilt of affluent Americans, convincing them that the attainment of luxuries is petty and selfish compared to the needs of the world’s