Practical Ethics

The third edition of this classic textbook is completely revised and updated featuring a new chapter on climate change.

"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. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative argumentsmake it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live"--Provided by publisher.

Autorentext
Peter Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal
Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its "All-TIME" list of the
100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singer
has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical
Ethics; The Expanding Circle; Rethinking Life and Death; Ethics into Action; The Life You
Can Save; The Most Good You Can Do; and, with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, The Point of
View of the Universe. His works have appeared in more than 25 languages.

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of
Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and
Australia, in 1999 he became Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University
Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined his
Princeton appointment with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of
Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is married, with three
daughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 he
was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest civic honour.

Inhalt
1. About ethics; 2. Equality and its implications; 3. Equality for animals?; 4. What's wrong with killing?; 5. Taking life: animals; 6. Taking life: the embryo and the fetus; 7. Taking life: humans; 8. Rich and poor; 9. Climate change; 10. The environment; 11. Civil disobedience, violence and terrorism; 12. Why act morally?

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