Ethics in the real world - 82 brief essays on things that matter
Inbunden bok. Princeton university Press. 2016. 355 sidor.
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- ISBN
- 9780691172477
- Titel
- Ethics in the real world - 82 brief essays on things that matter
- Författare
- Singer, Peter
- Utgivningsår
- 2016
- Omfång
- 355 sidor
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news.
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