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  • How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest

    How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest

    by Peter Singer

    refutes the idea that humans are by nature selfish; powerful call to live an ethical life.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1995
  • One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization

    One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization

    by Peter Singer

    One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • The Expanding Circle

    The Expanding Circle

    by Peter Singer

    What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, wh... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1981
  • Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

    Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

    by Peter Singer

    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, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective alt... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

    The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

    by Peter Singer

    This is the right time to ask yourself: "What should I be doing to help?" For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

    Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

    by Peter Singer

    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, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective alt... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • One world: the ethics of globalisation

    One world: the ethics of globalisation

    by Peter Singer

    How can we resolve questions about the environment and climate change without international co-operation? What do we make of the refusal of the US and Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? Why do people protest so violently against the World Trade Organisation? What obligations do countries hav... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Writings on an ethical life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)

    Writings on an ethical life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)

    by Peter Singer

    A passionate founder of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer challenges our most closely held beliefs about infanticide, euthanasia, the legal rights and moral obligations of all species, and more. This is a collection of Singer's best and most provocative writing.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Pushing time away: my grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    Pushing time away: my grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    by Peter Singer

    "What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights and depths of Vienna's twentieth-century inte... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

    Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

    by Peter Singer

    The groundbreaking book that challenged the ethics of our treatment of animals and jump-started the animal rights movement--with a new preface by the author First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circl... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures Ser.)

    The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures Ser.)

    by Peter Singer

    Peter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. I... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2015
  • Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    by Peter Singer

    "A beautifully written and deeply moving personal document by one of our preeminent contemporary philosophers." --Joyce Carol Oates Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author's grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his li... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Writings on an Ethical Life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)

    Writings on an Ethical Life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)

    by Peter Singer

    The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1999
  • The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush

    The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush

    by Peter Singer

    From the author of Animal Liberation, an examination of the chasm between the words and actions of George W. Bush, who claimed the moral high ground more than any president in recent US history During his time in public office, George W. Bush framed a striking number of his major policies and initia... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2004
  • Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically (Penguin Great Ideas Ser.)

    Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically (Penguin Great Ideas Ser.)

    by Peter Singer

    In a world reeling from a global pandemic, never has a treatise on veganism—from our foremost philosopher on animal rights—been more relevant or necessary. “Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.” —The New Yorker Even before the pu... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
  • One World: The Ethics of Globalization

    One World: The Ethics of Globalization

    by Peter Singer

    Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalization. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (2nd Edition)

    Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (2nd Edition)

    by Peter Singer

    Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Anim... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1990
  • A Darwinian Left

    A Darwinian Left

    by Peter Singer

    In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2000
  • Practical Ethics (3rd Edition)

    Practical Ethics (3rd Edition)

    by Peter Singer

    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. Som... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

    Hegel: A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer

    Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Offering a broad discussion of Hegel's ideas a... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2001
  • In Defense of Animals

    In Defense of Animals

    by Peter Singer

    Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he f... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • A Companion to Ethics

    A Companion to Ethics

    by Peter Singer

    In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight throu... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1993
  • Marx: A Very Short Introduction

    Marx: A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer

    Marx wrote at such enormous length, on so many different subjects, that it is not easy to see his ideas as a whole. I believe that there is a central idea, a vision of the world, which unifies all of Marx's thought and explains what would otherwise be puzzling features of it. In this book I try to s... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2000
  • The Ethics Of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

    The Ethics Of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

    by Peter Singer • Jim Mason

    Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it w... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

    The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

    by Peter Singer • Jim Mason

    Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it w... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
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