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Jonathan Leighton

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Jonathan is an ethics strategist, writer, social change advocate and public speaker, He is Executive Director of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS), a Swiss-based think-and-do tank that promotes the prevention of human and non-human suffering as our overriding global ethical priority. His book, The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe, explores the question “What matters?”. His new book The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering goes further in proposing a rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics.

Jonathan is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

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Pretty Lies That Hide The Truth and Drive Discrimination | Natalie Khazaal | Sentientism 248

A Sentientism conversation with Dr. Natalie Khazaal about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Pretty Lies That Hide The Truth and Drive Discrimination | Natalie Khazaal | Sentientism 248

A Sentientism conversation with Dr. Natalie Khazaal about what's real, who matters and how to make a better world.
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Come to our Sentientism Picnic in London on 26 July!

Our first ever in-person Sentientism meetup was a picnic. So is our next one! Come join us if you’re in range of London on 26th July. All sentients welcome! Why […]
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Citizens’ Assemblies, But With Animals & Plants

Eva Meijer, philosopher and artist, on Sentientism episode 245 talking about multispecies politics.
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