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Peter Singer

Ethics in the Real World

82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

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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. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical question… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-17247-7
  • EAN: 9780691172477
  • Produktnummer: 19708372
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 376 S.
  • Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.6 cm x D3.0 cm 479 g
  • Gewicht: 479

Über den Autor


Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He first became well known internationally in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. His other books include How Are We to Live?, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), and The Most Good You Can Do. He divides his time between Princeton and Melbourne.

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