Peter Singer (1946) Australian philosopher
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 88
“We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist.”
As cited in West, Celeste, 1986, "In Memoriam: Elsa Gidlow", Feminist Studies, 12 (3), 614.
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