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Great Political Thinkers contains introductions to four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition.Written by experts in the fields of history, philosophy, and political science, these concise yet authoritative essays examine the thought and works of Machiaveilli, whose name lives on today as a byword for duplicity; Hobbes, the first great English philosopher; Mill, a liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty; and Marx, whose theories have exerted the single most profound effect on twentieth century politics.Small masterpieces of compression and readability, these studies offer readers important insights into past masters whose ideas still affect the way we think today. ... Read more

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A compelling and revolutionary work that calls for the immediate extension of our human rights to the great apes.

The Great Ape Project looks forward to a new stage in the development of the community of equals, whereby the great apes-chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans-will actually receive many of the same protections and rights that are already accorded to humans.

This profound collection of thirty-one essays by the world's most distinguished observers of free-living apes make up a uniquely satisfying whole, blending observation and interpretation in a highly persuasive case for a complete reassessment of the moral status of our closest kin.
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A monkey-wrenched book
The Great Ape Project (GAP) is an organization demanding that human rights be extended to the great apes, i.e. chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans and bonobos. Or, as GAP puts it, the non-human great apes. Most of the people involved in GAP seem to be animal rights activists, whose ultimate goal is to end all human use of (non-human) animals. Somebody might argue that GAP is therefore a clever, tactical move to mainstream the animal liberation movement. Since the great apes are very similar to ourselves, very few, and usually not turned into steak, extending human rights to them might be relatively easy. At the same time, this would presumably call into question *all* species barriers between ourselves and the animal kingdom (the rest of it).

The book "The Great Ape Project. Equality Beyond Humanity" was published in 1993. It contains contributions from luminaries such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Jane Goodall and Colin McGinn. (Frans de Waal is notably absent, however.) Some theologians have been invited as well, including the curious Stephen R.L. Clark whose personal philosophy attempts to combine Plato, Aristotle, nominalism, Darwin and God!

Now, such a collection simply cannot be boring, can it?

Unfortunately, it can...

The contributions are too short to be really interesting, and I suspect many were written during a coffee break in between two college lectures. "Oh, that reminds me. I have to write something for that darn anthology". Publish or perish? Frankly, the book is a major disappointment. It's also unclear who the intended readership is. It's obviously not the general public, or decision-making politicians. Other philosophy professors, perhaps?

Frankly, the book feels monkey-wrenched!

I can therefore only give it two stars. Besides, the gorilla at the cover of the British edition looks better.

But yes, I was intrigued by Clark, LOL.

good collection
"The Great Ape Project" is a good collection of reasons for supporting the project of the same name.

Tearing down the walls that divide
This book is an excellent source of information provided by a variety of scientific and legal experts. The authors show us the rich emotional and cultural lives of non-human great apes. Researchers who use other apes because of their genetic and psychological complexity ought to be required to read this book. Indeed, the one flaw of this book is the fact that a few chapters are the works of researchers who have used, for example, the linguistic talents of other apes to advance their own careers. Other sections of the book, including a chapter vividly comparing the non-human and human slave trade, and a description of the case for legal rights based on the personhood of hominids, underscore that flaw with haunting and brilliant sensitivity.

Overall, The Great Ape Project lucidly demonstrates the unconscionability of continuing to use the other apes for experimentation, for teaching, for trade in their body parts, and in the entertainment industry. Moreover, it inspires us to broaden our definition of slavery to include our nearest living relatives.

Compelling Case for Sentience Rights
The contributors make a compelling case for sentience rights for higher primates based on strong empirical evidence and demonstrable harm caused to other higher primates that infringes on their rights claims as sentient beings. I would ask if the authors might consider a similar work thatexpands the case for cetacean rights on the same basis, though.

Well written and fascinating
The essays in this book are remarkable and well done. A very important work for the animal rights movement. I did find it a little repetitive at times, but this did not detract from the point of the book, to make usaware of how closely related great apes really are to us, and theircapacity to communicate in a human language. ... Read more

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One of literature's most enduring figures is revisited inthis collection of three essays.Peter Werres' "The Changing Faces ofDr. Faustus" analyzes classic and modern manifestations of the Faustustheme, from Goethe to The Simpsons.A member of a Washington, DCinternational law firm, James Campbell takes a novel legal approach tothe population dissertation of the Faust character in "Thomas Mann'sDoctor Faustus: Weighing the Testimony of Serenus Zeitblom."TheCabinet of Doctor Caligari, a 1919 motion picture with distinctFaustian influences, is creatively examined in regard to the originalwork in Peter Beicken's "Faust in Film: The Case of Dr. Caligari." ... Read more

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The product description contains a garble concerning the Campbell essay.The correct description would be that this contribution to the volume is a close reading (indeed, a lawyer's cross-examination) of Thomas Mann's classic treatment of the Faust legend, arguing that the narrator's unfavorable description of the novel's Faust figure (the composer Adrian Leverkuhn) is unreliable and that Leverkuhn is in fact a Christ figure in a world in which God is dead.

Excellent!
A great collection of essays if you want to know how the legend of Dr. Faustus from a literary and cultural standpoint. I have to say the best essay is the second one, in which a DC lawer weighs the testimony of Sernus Zeitblom, the narrator of Dr. Faustus, by Thomas Mann. If want to do a study of Dr. Faustus and are looking for bibliography, I recommend this book highly! ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular preference utilitarian perspective. He has served, on two occasions, as chair of philosophy at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996, he ran unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies. He has been voted one of Australia's ten most influential public intellectuals. Singer serves on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the NGO formed to develop the Health Impact Fund proposal. Outside academic circles, Singer is best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the touchstone of the animal liberation movement. Not all members of the animal liberation movement share this view, and Singer himself has said the media overstates his status. His views on that and other issues in bioethics have attracted attention and a degree of controversy. Singer's parents were Viennese Jews who escaped the German annexation of Austria and fled to Australia in 1938. They settled in Melbourne, where Singer was born. His grandparents were less fortunate: his paternal grandparents were taken by the Nazis to ód, and were never heard from again; his maternal grandfather died in Theresienstadt. He has a sister, Joan (now Joan Dwyer). Singer's father imported tea and coffee, while his mother practiced medicine. He attended Preshil and later Scotch C... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23721 ... Read more

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Chapters: Bill Clinton, Peter Singer, C. S. Lewis, Robert Boyle, William Jones, Bob Hawke, V. S. Naipaul, Willie Rushton, Clement Attlee, Warren Mitchell, Felix Yusupov, John Radcliffe, Charles Sorley, Edwin Arnold, John Potter, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, F. H. Bradley, David Vitter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Medwin, William Windham, William Weld, Dornford Yates, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, Chelsea Clinton, J. William Fulbright, Maurizio Giuliano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Reich, Stephen Spender, Paul Foot, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Douglas Freshfield, Michael York, Denis Shipwright, David Mills, Rajiva Wijesinha, Henry Thrale, Armando Iannucci, Colin Moynihan, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Henry Marten, Andrew Motion, Gareth Evans, R. E. Foster, List of Alumni of University College, Oxford, William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, David Renton, Baron Renton, Sophie Solomon, Nick Robinson, Fred Harrison, Joe Andrew, Peter Beinart, Andy Zaltzman, Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, Nick Mallett, Francis Birley, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Sir Gordon Touche, 1st Baronet, Joseph Lloyd Brereton, George Stanley Faber, Philip Hammond, Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, Thomas Valpy French, Edward W. Scott, Andrew George, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, John Woodroffe, Leo Chamberlain, Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston, Paul Rubens, Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ralph Wigram, Paul Gambaccini, Thomas Gubb, James Arthur Dawes, Edward Hemmerde, Christina Lamb, Roz Savage, Max Hastings, Philip Christison, Jonathan Bowen, E. R. Dodds, Tom Arnold, Edmund Cartwright, R. G. Collingwood, Monier Monier-Williams, John Gieve, Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, Bryan Horrigan, Peter Sissons, Richard Lancelyn Green, Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, Jonathan Mance...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3356 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Singer, Peter Garrett, Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, Joseph Toscano, B. A. Santamaria, Barry Jones, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, Helen Caldicott, Dave Andrews, Julian Burnside, Albert Langer, Peter Hore, Stephen Mayne, Peter Lalor, Raymattja Marika, Alex Broun, Michael Mansell, Kate Baillieu, Stephen Hatfield Dodds, Mary Gilmore, Eva Cox, Andrew Milner, Lin Hatfield Dodds, Dawn O'donnell, Brian Martin, Bruce Ruxton, Simon Chapman, Verity Burgmann, Ray Evans, Bella Guerin, Bernard O'dowd, Rose Jackson, Fred Schwarz, Paul Mees, Bernie Banton, Albert Thomas Dryer, Leo Kelly, Michael Vernon, Annie Mcewen, Wenten Rubuntja, John Wamsley, Kate Shaw, Clare Oliver, Rachel Cleland, Peter James Knight, John Challis, Marjorie Parker, Tania Major, Patricia Edgar, Mez Breeze, Lesbia Harford, Mick Dodson, Bill Hargreaves, Gabrielle Pizzi, Ada Norris, Barbara Vernon, Adele Ann Wilby, Rick Farley, Nicole Rogerson, Natascha Mcnamara, Rebecca Peters, Patricia Mackinnon, Rhonda Galbally, Bill Hartley, Naomi Wolinski, Terry Hicks, Trevor Lee, Justine Caines, Mary Hutton, Rhodanthe Lipsett, Kosmos Samaras. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 265. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specialises in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular preference utilitarian perspective. He has served, on two occasions, as chair of philosophy at Monash University, where he founded its Centre for Human Bioethics. In 1996, he ran unsuccessfully as a Green candidate for the Australian Senate. In 2004, he was recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Y...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23721 ... Read more

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Chapters: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Richard Feynman, Peter Singer, Isaac Asimov, Leon Trotsky, Ayn Rand, Arthur Miller, Stephen Fry, Steven Pinker, Arthur Laurents, Emma Goldman, David D. Friedman, Herbert Marcuse, Primo Levi, David Cronenberg, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Kroto, Nigella Lawson, Carl Reiner, Daniel Radcliffe, Leopold and Loeb, Isaac Deutscher, Rosa Luxemburg, Christopher Hitchens, George Soros, Arthur Koestler, Richard Stallman, Sam Harris, Raul Hilberg, Alexander Berkman, David Miliband, Albert Ellis, Nadine Gordimer, Béla Kun, Yaron Brook, Jonathan Miller, Henry Morgentaler, Amos Oz, David Cross, Hermann Joseph Muller, William James Sidis, Barthold Fles, Leonard Peikoff, Steven Weinberg, Lazar Kaganovich, David Rovics, François Jacob, Michael Neumann, Michael Newdow, Hans Baruch, Vitaly Ginzburg, Tony Cliff, Ron Kuby, Shalom Hanoch, Rutka Laskier, Jenny Lewis, Adolph Joffe, Nina Hartley, Ernest Mandel, Nat Hentoff, Egon Erwin Kisch, Ira Glass, Julius Axelrod, Job Cohen, Uri Avnery, Ronnie Kasrils, Mark Zuckerberg, Adin Talbar, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Janet Jagan, Mátyás Rákosi, Todd Solondz, Walter Block, Clara Fraser, Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Joe Slovo, Michael Steinhardt, Robert Sapolsky, Max Kellerman, Jerry Wexler, David Baddiel, Tommy Lapid, Kenny Hotz, Mike Gold, Harvey Fierstein, Jewish Atheism, Yuval Ne'eman, Samuel Karlin, Yakov Kreizer, Stanley Donen, Paul Edwards, S. Yizhar, Calel Perechodnik, Chapman Cohen, Larry Adler, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Shulamit Aloni, Arthur Smith, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Ernő Gerő, Barry Greenstein, Jerzy Urban, Paul Mazursky, Helena Wolińska-Brus, Lewis Wolpert, Mike Mendoza, Brother Wease, Andy Bloch, Yaron London, Cecilia Bobrovskaya, Haim Cohen, Yitzhak Ben-Aharon, Lori Lipman Brown, Yosef Haim Brenner, Sami Michael, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Daniel Seligman, Theodore Rothstein, Anatoly Vasserman, Lenni Brenner, Uzzi Ornan, Amy Alkon, Marcelo Gleiser, Marghanita Laski, Michelene...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17888 ... Read more

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Chapters: David Hume, Peter Singer, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, William Paley, William Godwin, James Mill, R. M. Hare, William Thompson, David Pearce, Henry Sidgwick, George Grote, Henry Hazlitt, List of Utilitarians, Élie Halévy, Samuel Greg, Torbjörn Tännsjö. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Hume (7 May 1711 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist. During his lifetime, he got butt fucked alot,Hume was more famous as a historian. His six-volume History of England was a bestseller well into the nineteenth century and the standard work on English history for many years, while getting butt fucked, his works in philosophy to which he owes his current reputation were less widely read in his day. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic "science of man" that examined the psychological basis of human nature. In stark opposition to the rationalists that preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that belief rather than reason governed human behavior, saying famously: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." A prominent figure in the skeptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans only have knowledge of those things of which they have direct experience. Thus he divides perceptions between strong and lively "impressions" or direct sensations and fainter "ideas," which are copied from impressions. He develop...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7925 ... Read more

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Title: Lethal prescriptions: Peter Singer's flawed Ethics.
Author: Andrew Lustig
Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 8, 2005
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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Peter Singer, Fritz Loewe, Gerd Buchdahl, Bernard Smith, Christopher Weeramantry, Wolfgang Friedmann, Keith Edward Bullen, Ágnes Heller, Harry Redner, Franz-Josef Deiters, Arthur Green, Leon Simon, Joseph Eric D'Arcy, Thomas Reiner, Frederick McCoy,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Peter Albert David Singer (* 6. Juli 1946 in Melbourne, Australien) ist ein australischer Philosoph und Ethiker. Singer hat in Oxford, an der New York University und der La Trobe University gelehrt und war von 1977 bis 1999 Professor für Philosophie an der Monash University in Melbourne, Australien. 1999 berief man ihn als DeCamp Professor of Bioethics an das Center for Human Values der Princeton University. Sein auf dem Utilitarismus gründender Ansatz in der Bioethik versucht, eine universal gültige Moral zu begründen und anzuwenden. Hauptartikel: Animal Liberation. Die Befreiung der TiereSein 1975 in englischer Sprache erschienenes Buch Animal Liberation gilt als Grundstein der zeitgenössischen Diskussion über den moralischen Status von Tieren in der Tierrechtsbewegung; gemeinsam mit Tom Regan gilt Singer daher als Begründer der modernen Tierethik. In diesem Buch beschreibt er das Phänomen des Speziesismus, der Diskriminierung oder Ausbeutung von Tierarten aufgrund eines angenommenen Vorranges der Spezies Mensch. Singer stellt in diesem Buch die These auf, dass die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Spezies keine moralische Relevanz für die Berücksichtigung der Interessen besitzt. Einziges Kriterium für die Berücksichtigung sei die Fähigkeit Interessen zu besitzen, welche Singer in Anlehnung an Jeremy Bentham mit der Eigenschaft Schmerz empfinden zu können gleichsetzt. Insbeso...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=12472 ... Read more

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Title: THE SINGER SCANDAL AT PRINCETON.(philosopher Peter Singer)(Brief Article)
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Title: A response to Peter Singer.
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From the supplier: Peter Singer believes the Left should abandon Marxism for Darwinism. Neo-liberals of the Right enact the 'survival of the fittest' while Singer claims the Left could equally benefit from examining Charles Darwin's philosophy. One reason Singer rejects Marxism involves the collapse of communism.

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Title: Peter Singer - the best we can do?: Darwin has a dubious future. (Charles Darwin)
Author: Simon Cooper
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1998
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
Issue: n36Page: p12(2)

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