- Ethics, Self-interest, Social ethics, Philosophy and ethics
"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume.
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- Author
- Peter Singer
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 318
- Publisher
- Mandarin/Reed, Mandarin, Prometheus Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780879759667
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Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.
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