Summary |
A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays. Free speech and fake news, stopping Putin, pandemic ethics, climate change, extreme poverty, abortion, euthanasia, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, happiness, climbing Mt Everest, the parenting style of elephants, our relationship with kangaroos and colonising space. Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. In this book, he brings clarity, focus and brilliant analysis to a wide range of current real-world ethical matters. Provocative and original, these essays will challenge--and possibly change--your beliefs about a wide range of real-world ethical questions. |