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How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest is a 1993 book about applied ethics by moral philosopher Peter Singer. Singer argues that doing the right thing involves attending to the sufferings and preferences of other sentient beings.
1 de ene. de 1993 · How Are We to Live? explores the way in which standard contemporary assumptions about human nature and self-interest have led to a world that is fraught with social and environmental problems.
English. Item Size. 636.9M. x, 262 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-252) and index. The ultimate choice -- What's in it for me?' -- Using up the world -- How we came to be living this way -- Is selfishness in our genes?
19 de mar. de 2010 · Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one''s own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other...
1 de ene. de 1994 · Unlike some of Peter Singer's other books, "How are we to live" is not a comprehensive opus on ethics, the history of ethics, or ethical systems. It is a book about the ethical dilemmas faced by modern self-interested Western society, and it is intended for a general audience rather than an academic one.
How are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-interest. Peter Singer. Mandarin, 1995 - Philosophy - 318 pages. Originally published in Australia in 1993, this text discusses an ethical...
But how should we live? What is there to stop us behaving selfishly? In a highly readable account which makes reference to a wide variety of sources and everyday issues, Peter Singer suggests that the conventional pursuit of self-interest is individually and collectively self-defeating.
