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Ethics in the Real World : 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Matt Rohal, Peter Singer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher** 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 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, i

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Matt Rohal, Peter Singer
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780691237862
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Humanities

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