1. About ethics; 2. Equality and its implications; 3. Equality for animals?; 4. What's wrong with killing?; 5. Taking life: animals; 6. Taking life: the embryo and the foetus; 7. Taking life: humans; 8. Rich and poor; 9. Insiders and outsiders; 10. The environment; 11. Ends and means; 12. Why act morally?; Appendix: on being silenced in Germany; Notes; References and further reading.
The focus of the book is the application of ethics to difficult and controversial social questions.
From a review of the first edition 'Singer's book is packed with
admirably marshalled and detailed information, social, medical, and
economic, and has a splendid appendix of notes and references to
further reading. The utility of this utilitarian's book to students
of its subject can hardly be exaggerated.' New York Review of
Books
'Peter Singer has provided us with a good example of the fruits of
a major and by now established extension of philosophical interest.
He succeeds in being straightforward, clear, and forceful without
oversimplifying the technical aspects of the problems he discusses
or trivialising the underlying philosophical issues.' The Times
Higher Education Supplement
'Excellent and highly provocative.' Choice
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