Description
This wide-ranging collection brings together influential writings on practical ethics, examining how moral principles apply to some of society’s most urgent and controversial questions. Its essays explore animal rights, environmental responsibility, abortion, euthanasia, infanticide, and the moral status of human and nonhuman life, challenging readers to reconsider assumptions about personhood, suffering, and obligation. Drawing from decades of philosophical work, the volume also reflects on ethical activism, public debate, and the resistance that can greet ideas that unsettle conventional beliefs. Clear, rigorous, and deliberately provocative, it invites readers to approach everyday choices and public policy with greater consistency, compassion, and moral scrutiny.
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paperback
Fourth Estate
Published Jan 1, 2001
361 pages
ISBN: 9781841155500
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First Published
2000
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer.