Table of Contents

1: The ultimate choice
2: `What's in it for me?'
3: Using up the world
4: How we came to be living this way
5: Is selfishness in our genes?
6: How the Japanese live
7: Tit for Tat
8: Living ethically
9: The nature of ethics
10: Living to some purpose
11: The good life
Notes
Index

About the Author

Peter Singer is currently Professor of Philosophy, Co-Director of the Institute of Ethics and Public Affairs, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne.

Reviews

Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read. My choice would be this book. Roger Crisp, Ethics highly successful. it tackles questions of the first importance, it is immensely readable - being packed with anecdotes and illustrations - and it forces its readers to reflect on how they live their lives Journal of Applied Philosophy