Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
by Peter Singerrefutes the idea that humans are by nature selfish; powerful call to live an ethical life.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1995 -
One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization
by Peter SingerOne World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
The Expanding Circle
by Peter SingerWhat is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, wh... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1981 -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
by Peter SingerPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective alt... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2016 -
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter SingerThis is the right time to ask yourself: "What should I be doing to help?" For the first time in history, it is now within our reach to eradicate world poverty and the suffering it brings. Yet around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
by Peter SingerPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective alt... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2016 -
One world: the ethics of globalisation
by Peter SingerHow can we resolve questions about the environment and climate change without international co-operation? What do we make of the refusal of the US and Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? Why do people protest so violently against the World Trade Organisation? What obligations do countries hav... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
Writings on an ethical life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)
by Peter SingerA passionate founder of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer challenges our most closely held beliefs about infanticide, euthanasia, the legal rights and moral obligations of all species, and more. This is a collection of Singer's best and most provocative writing.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
Pushing time away: my grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna
by Peter Singer"What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights and depths of Vienna's twentieth-century inte... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2003 -
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
by Peter SingerThe groundbreaking book that challenged the ethics of our treatment of animals and jump-started the animal rights movement--with a new preface by the author First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circl... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2009 -
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures Ser.)
by Peter SingerPeter Singer, often described as the world's most influential living philosopher, presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his own work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism involves doing the most good possible. I... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
by Peter Singer"A beautifully written and deeply moving personal document by one of our preeminent contemporary philosophers." --Joyce Carol Oates Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author's grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his li... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2003 -
Writings on an Ethical Life (Isnm Ser. #Vol. 138)
by Peter SingerThe essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our time Since bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1999 -
The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush
by Peter SingerFrom the author of Animal Liberation, an examination of the chasm between the words and actions of George W. Bush, who claimed the moral high ground more than any president in recent US history During his time in public office, George W. Bush framed a striking number of his major policies and initia... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2004 -
Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically (Penguin Great Ideas Ser.)
by Peter SingerIn a world reeling from a global pandemic, never has a treatise on veganism—from our foremost philosopher on animal rights—been more relevant or necessary. “Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.” —The New Yorker Even before the pu... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2020 -
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
by Peter SingerKnown for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalization. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and ... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2002 -
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (2nd Edition)
by Peter SingerSince its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Anim... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1990 -
A Darwinian Left
by Peter SingerIn this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2000 -
Practical Ethics (3rd Edition)
by Peter SingerFor thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters, and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Som... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2011 -
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
by Peter SingerHegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some of the more challenging aspects of Hegel's philosophy. Offering a broad discussion of Hegel's ideas a... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2001 -
In Defense of Animals
by Peter SingerBringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he f... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2006 -
A Companion to Ethics
by Peter SingerIn this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight throu... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1993 -
Marx: A Very Short Introduction
by Peter SingerMarx wrote at such enormous length, on so many different subjects, that it is not easy to see his ideas as a whole. I believe that there is a central idea, a vision of the world, which unifies all of Marx's thought and explains what would otherwise be puzzling features of it. In this book I try to s... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2000 -
Leading Consciously
Leading Consciously addresses the issues of motivation, decision-making, communication, time management, effective learning, work psychology, organizational development, and self-mastery. The author weaves together the insights of some of the most remarkable leaders of the world whose lives embody g... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 1998 -
Sinister Errand (Dark Series)
Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of Kells's sinister errand flit the mysterious 'Auntie', the alluring Janine, the beautiful Mrs Vaile... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2013