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Practical Ethics

ISBN: 9780521707688 | 0521707684
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 2/21/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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.
The third edition of this classic textbook is completely revised and updated featuring a new chapter on climate change.
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Prefacep. vii
About Ethicsp. 1
Equality and Its Implicationsp. 16
Equality for Animals?p. 48
What's Wrong with Killing?p. 71
Taking Life: Animalsp. 94
Taking Life: The Embryo and Fetusp. 123
Taking Life: Humansp. 155
Rich and Poorp. 191
Climate Changep. 216
The Environmentp. 238
Civil Disobedience, Violence and Terrorismp. 256
Why Act Morally?p. 276
Notes, References and Further Readingp. 297
Indexp. 323
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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.


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