Peter Singer

A Companion to Ethics

Herausgegeben von Singer, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, some of todaya s most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1993.
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1014g
• ISBN-13: 9780631187851
• ISBN-10: 0631187855
• Artikelnr.: 13586792

Autorenporträt

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His Practical Ethics is one of the most widely used texts in applied ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death received the 1995 National Book Council's Banjo Award for non-fiction. He was the foundation president of the International Association of Bioethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

List of contributors.

Part I: The Roots.

Part II: The Great Ethical Traditions.

Part III: Western Philosophical Ethics : A Short History.

Part IV: How Ought I Live?.

Part V : Applications.

Part VI: The Nature of Ethics.

Part VII: Challenge and Critique.

Afterword.

Index.

Rezensionen

"A Companion to Ethics will provide an invaluable stimulusfor anyone interested in ethics -- which is to say it will benefitanyone interested in the central questions of human life." DavidSeehouse, University of Liverpool; BMJ

"Peter Singer has directed this book very expertly. Thecontributors have set forth the facts about ethical systems with asmuch kind clarity as specialists can ever bestow upon theignorant." The Independent

"A brilliant collection of articles." Pat Haggard, NewScientist