Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
By Peter Singer
Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Unabridged
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Library CD (In Stock)
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781665299855
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ISBN: 9781665299848
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ISBN: 9781665299862
Runtime: | 8.33 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Philosophy |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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 and Practical Ethics, 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. In addition, he explores, in an easily accessible form, some of the deepest philosophical questions, such as whether anything really matters and what is the value of the pale blue dot that is our planet.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Peter Singer is among the most vital moral voices of our time. He urges us to confront not only the question of what we should not do, but also the harder and larger questions of what we should do, and how much we owe to others. —Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Philosophy |
Runtime: | 8.33 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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