Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author of the Oxford Reader on Ethics, and Applied Ethics in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy. He is best-known for his books Animal Liberation, and The Way We Live Now.
`With the philosopher's commendable lack of concern for the impact
of his ideas, Peter Singer has written a wonderfully provoking
book.'
Dr Brice Avery, Catholic Herald
`a work that promises to be deeply controversial and even shocking
and, in part, it certainly is'
Times Higher
`With the philosopher's commendable lack of concern for the impact of his ideas, Peter Singer has written a wonderfully provoking book.' Dr Brice Avery, Catholic Herald `a work that promises to be deeply controversial and even shocking and, in part, it certainly is' Times Higher
Singer (Animal Liberation, LJ 3/15/90. 2d ed.) calls for a revolution in ethical thinking about life and death. Human beings, in his view, form merely one species among others, and obligations to humans do not always outweigh those to animals. Within the human species, not all life has equal worth. Singer's position has radical applications in practice, which he is at pains to spell out. In his view, people whose brains no longer function may have their vital organs removed, even if they are not legally dead. Abortion is almost always morally permissible and active euthanasia often justifiable. Even infanticide receives a sympathic hearing. Singer writes well and offers a detailed discussion of important issues in medical ethics. But he fails to address seriously objections to his brand of utilitarianism and inclines too readily to dismiss ordinary morality as "speciesism." For academic collections.‘David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
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