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Practical Ethics

3rd Edition

Author: Peter Singer, Princeton University, New Jersey

Date Published: February 2011
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521881418

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For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.
- Gives students the tools they need to tackle the big ethical questions of the day
- Now thoroughly revised and updated including new chapters on climate change, factory farming and terrorism
- New edition of the classic textbook that has helped over 100,000 students worldwide to understand ethics
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Product details
- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521881418
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. About ethics
2. Equality and its implications
3. Equality for animals?
4. What's wrong with killing?
5. Taking life: animals
6. Taking life: the embryo and the fetus
7. Taking life: humans
8. Rich and poor
9. Climate change
10. The environment
11. Civil disobedience, violence and terrorism
12. Why act morally?
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Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Applied Ethics
- Contemporary Ethical Values
- Contemporary Moral Problems; Introduction to Ethics
- Contemporary Social and Moral Problems in the U.S.
- Criminal Justice Ethics
- ETHICS AND COMMUNCATION
- Ethical environment of business
- Ethics
- Ethics and Public Life
- Ethics in the Profession
- Healthcare of Medical Ethics
- Human Conduct and Values
- Introduction to the Study of Ethics
- Morals
- Practical and Professional Ethics
- Reading and Composition
- contemporary ethics issues
Author
Peter Singer, Princeton University, New Jersey
Peter Singer is currently Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Animal Liberation (1975), Rethinking Life and Death (1996) and, most recently, The Life You Can Save (2009). In 2005, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.