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035 _a(DE-B1597)501210
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082 0 4 _a170
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSinger, Peter
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEthics in the Real World :
_b82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter /
_cPeter Singer.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS /
_rSinger, Peter --
_tBig Questions --
_tAnimals --
_tBeyond the Ethic of the Sanctity of Life --
_tBioethics and Public Health --
_tSex and Gender --
_tDoing Good --
_tHappiness --
_tPolitics --
_tGlobal Governance --
_tScience and Technology --
_tLiving, Playing, Working --
_tAfterword to the Paperback Edition --
_tIndex
520 _aPeter 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. 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. The collection also includes some more personal reflections, like Singer's thoughts on one of his favorite activities, surfing, and an unusual suggestion for starting a family conversation over a holiday feast.Now with a new afterword by the author, this provocative and original book will challenge-and possibly change-your beliefs about many real-world ethical questions.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 0 _aEthics, Modern.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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700 1 _aSinger, Peter
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
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