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1. How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 262
Pages
(1995-05)
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How Are We to Live?Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
Well-researched accessible ethics.
ethically I guess
Okay
Every person on this planet should read this book! |
2. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2009-03-03)
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Naive but Noble Approach to a Complex Problem
Great Into to Global Poverty and Charity
all proceeds to charity
How much is a human life worth?
Singer delivers significant, powerful, well-researched and documented message. Must read! |
3. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.) by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2009-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 Animal Liberation, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures—destroying the spurious justifications behind them, and offering alternatives to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency, and justice, it is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike. Customer Reviews (104)
A definitive read
Too Disturbing To Get To The End
the standard (of sorts)
Batton change
This book made me a vegetarian |
4. In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave | |
Paperback: 264
Pages
(2005-09-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Long hailed as a brilliant and controversial philosopher, Singer has assembled incisive new articles by philosophers and by activists. In Defense of Animals is sure to inform and inspire all who want to understand, or contribute to, the unfolding moral revolution in the way we treat animals. Customer Reviews (5)
A mind opener
He's a welfarest
Right argument, perhaps the wrong person arguing
In the future
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5. Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2001-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past twenty years, Australian philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer has pushed the hot buttons of our collective conscience. In addition to writing the book that sparked the modern animal rights movement, Singer has challenged our most closely held beliefs on the sanctity of human life, the moral obligation's of citizens of affluent nations toward those living in the poorest countries of the world, and much more, with arguments that intrigue as often and as powerfully as they incite. Writings On An Ethical Life offers a comprehensive collection of Singer's best and most provocative writing, as chosen by Singer himself. Among the controversial subjects addressed are the moral status of animals, environmental account-ablility, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and the ultimate choice of living an ethical life. This book provides an unsurpassed one-volume view of both the underpinnings and the applications of Singer's governing philosophy. Singer first gained eminence for his profoundly important early work on animal rights, arguing convincingly for vegetarianism and against the commonplace cruel treatment of animals by large commercial interests. However, he has probably attracted the most notoriety for his much-maligned writings in defense of abortion rights and certain forms of euthanasia. Singer is frequently misunderstood, misquoted, and demonized. Ironically, the ferocity of his detractors--particularly during his appointment as DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University--has generated nearly unheard-of exposure for an academic philosopher. While a small portion of Singer's work has been catapulted into the limelight, lay audiences have often overlooked other equally important ideas--unfortunate, because he is a wonderfully plainspoken and powerful writer: "Where so many are in such great need, indulgence in luxury is not morally neutral, and the fact that we have not killed anyone is not enough to make us morally decent citizens of the world." It is no wonder Singer is so controversial and influential. --Eric de Place Customer Reviews (23)
enlightened thinking
I'm too old for this
Excellent Book with Real Meaning for the World
Uncomfortable reading
Not what I was expecting |
6. The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer, Jim Mason | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2007-03-06)
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Ethical Decisions at the Checkout
ETHIC cuisine
Lifestance Changing Book
Terrible copyediting
an urgent challenge for everyone |
7. Practical Ethics by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 411
Pages
(1999-01-30)
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Removing our paleochristian baggage for a clearer view of our ethical problems
Practical Ethics
Some Reviewers Are Not Smart
Controversial and Compelling
Not only unethical but impractical, too! |
8. Peter Singer Under Fire (Under Fire Series) | |
Paperback: 640
Pages
(2009-09-01)
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Peter Singer Misunderstood
Each essay receives a reply from Singer |
9. Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1999-11-23)
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The story starts with chapter 2
Little Seeds of Practical Idealism
Deep insight, amazing stories, wonderful book
Amazing Book -- A must read for all activists!! Thank you for such an amazing book! It is a must read for anyone involved in activism. It shares a lifetime of wisdom. Enjoy!
A primer in effective (animal)activism Spira's activism was highly intelligent, practical, strategic and committed to the long term - he is a hero of the animal rights movement. ... Read more |
10. Practical Ethics by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2011-01-31)
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11. The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature | |
Paperback: 640
Pages
(2005-02-18)
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Unexpected treasure
Good way to find books you want to read by previewing them
unusual, provocative collection |
12. Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1996-04-15)
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Complete rubbish
So-so book with some critical thought, otherwise a re-hash of old ideas from the 70's
Logic (witha capital "L")
The collapse of Western Civilization
Another Well-Written Must Read by Singer |
13. The Life You Can Save: How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty. Peter Singer by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2010-03)
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A brilliant piece of philosophical writing that everyone should read... |
14. Ethics (Oxford Readers) | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(1994-05-12)
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Great reader in ethics...could use a more recent update..
Great anthology
to set the record straight...
Pass |
15. Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2004-02-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description "What binds us pushes time away" wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator, then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights and depths of Vienna's twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. He perished in obscurity at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943, separated from family and friends, leaving his grandson, the philosopher Peter Singer, without a chance to know him. Almost fifty years later Peter Singer set out to explore the life of the grandfather he never knew, and found a scholar whose ideas on ethics and human nature often parallel his own writings. Drawing on a wealth of documents and personal letters, Singer made startling discoveries about his grandparents' early romantic attachments, the basis on which they decide to marry, their professional aspirations, and their differing views of Judaism. An essay that Oppenheim co-wrote with Freud, but which was suppressed because of a bitter split within Freud's psychoanalytical society, leads Singer to explore the difficulties of following one's own ideas in the circles of both Freud and Adler. Combining touching family biography with thoughtful reflection on both personal and public questions we face today, Pushing Time Away captures critical moments in Europe's transition from Belle Époque to the Great War and to the rise of Fascism and the coming of World War II. Singer gives us a vivid portrait of Vienna when it was the center of European culture and new ideas, a culture that was both intensely Jewish and distinctly secular. Examining this culture and its fate forces Singer to confront one of the foundations of his own thought: How much can we rely on universal values and human reason? Customer Reviews (5)
Atheism and Resurrection or the Timeless Power of Universal Values
So much more than the title implies
well-crafted tribute His grandfather was a classical scholar in Vienna, a teacher of Greek and Latin at a prestigious gymnasium (high school), and an active participant in the city's psychoanalytic circles as a collaborator, then critic of Sigmund Freud, and a friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, the first of Freud's colleagues to defect from his inner circle over basic disagreements about psychoanalytic theory. His aunt's master's thesis about her father inspired Singer to learn more about his grandfather and write this book. Hecollected his grandfather's personal papers, letters between his grandparents before their marriage that he retrieved from his aunt's attic, and letters his grandparents wrote to his parents and aunt after they emigrated to Australia in 1938. Singer also travelled to Vienna to see where his grandparents lived and visit the school where his grandfather taught. He searched for additional pertinent information in the Austrian archives, interviewed his grandfather's surviving students, and went to Theresienstadt to see for himself where his grandfather died. Singer believed that reading through his grandfather's vast collection of writings in German, most of them in longhand that was difficult to read, would be "to undo, in some infinitely small but still quite palpable way, a wrong done by the Holocaust." The final part of the book describes the departure of the children to Australia in 1938 after the Anschluss, the illusory hope that life would somehow go on, the desperate efforts from faraway Melbourne to save the parents from the impeding catastrophe, and finally Theresienstadt. During his research Singer also learned what happened to his paternal grandparents: the Germans transported them to Lodz in Poland (after that they were probably gassed at Chelmno). Professor Singer's well-crafted tribute to his grandfather and the lost world of Jewish Vienna is a valuable contribution to Holocaust remembrance and mourning. --Charles Patterson, Ph.D., author of ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
The Missing Element
Compelling and moving memoir The book is a fascinating account of the period, as well as the curious relationship between David and Amalie, whose homosexual feelings towards others seem to lead them into marriage and children of their own. The final chapters, describing post-Anschluss Vienna, the ghetto conditions in which they were forced to live, and finally Theresienstadt concentration camp are harrowing and moving. As a memoir rather than a history, the book is written well and reads easily; though there are references to other works, it is not in any way dull or academic. The author's frequent comparisons between his grandfather's way of thinking and his own are I feel a little forced, but this is only a minor quibble, especially when the humanity of both the author and the grandparents about whom he is writing is evident. Highly recommended. One book which Singer refers to frequently is Stefan Zweig's "The World of Yesterday", which I would also highly recommend to anyone interested in the period or subject matter. ... Read more |
16. Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2004-07-15)
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17. One World: The Ethics of Globalization, SecondEdition (The Terry Lectures Series) by Professor Peter Singer | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2004-03-11)
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More about the politics of globalization
This guy gives me the creeps
POORLY WRITTEN BOOK
Worth your time.
Outdated in a Dynamic World |
18. Marx (A Brief Insight) by Peter Singer | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(2010-01-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx’s thought, enabling us to grasp Marx’s views as a whole. Singer sees him as a philosopher primarily concerned with human freedom, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx’s ideas of communism in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx’s legacy. Customer Reviews (13)
Short and sweet
great
A superb introduction to Marx's thought
The Last Prophet?
Cute. |
19. Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory: The Importance of Human Dignity by Susan Krantz | |
Hardcover: 152
Pages
(2002-01-30)
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20. A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 592
Pages
(1993-08-27)
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Great Overview of Normative Ethics
Great introduction, some defects But the book has several glaring flaws. Notably, it appears that some of the choices of essays were slightly biased. A case in point: the two essays on comtemporary deontology and consequentialism. The essay on deontology appears to not be written by an actual deontologist, and the author spent most of the essay bringing up silly objections that even I, as a first year undergraduate philosophy major, could answer. This is in stark contrast to the essay on consequentialism, written in a tone that barely escapes arrogance by its end. There is nothing wrong with having a die-hard supporter of consequentialism write an essay introducing people to the topic. If this book were better, all of the essays would've been written with just that goal in mind. To pick essays not written by people who actually subscribe to the ethical theory in question is simply poor editing, because often the writer reveals her ignorance. This reduces the quality of the book, instead of giving each ethical theory the best possible promulgation. Indeed, it's not as if deontology is so unpopular that Singer couldn't have found one to write about it. If anything, a better choice of essays would've made this book more useful than it actually is. Indeed, one of the interesting things about the essay on "universal perscriptivism" by R.M. Hare, was that the table of contents actually claims that the article is written by the theory's originator and best spokesman. If all the essays were written by their respective theory's "best spokesman," than this book would have 5 stars. Apart from these glaring flaws, the book remains a well edited companion to ethics. There is coverage (even if sometimes poor) given to almost every possible ethical theory, the history of ethics, applied ethics (just war, business ethics, etc.), and various ethical views (i.e., realism, naturalism, relativism, etc.). Anyone interested in a breif overview of the entire field of morality should start here.
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