Ethics in the real world
Subtitle: 82 brief essays on things that matter
By: Peter Singer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780691172477
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ethics; Self-interest; Social ethics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Big questions; title: Animals; title: Beyond the ethic of the sanctity of life; title: Bioethics and public health; title: Sex and gender; title: Doing good; title: Happiness; title: Politics; title: Global governance; title: Science and technology; title: Living, playing, working.