by Peter Singer · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446050391
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Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics. In this book, Peter Singer raises the application of ethics to controversial and difficult social issues such as equality, discrimination, abortion, euthanasia, the moral status of animals, political violence, civil disobedience, foreign aid, responsibility to the environment, and the treatment of refugees. The author explains and evaluates the relevant arguments in an insightful and non-doctrinaire way, showing how current controversies often have deep philosophical roots. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a new chapter on climate change.
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for vegetarianism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
