What 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...

In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we...

Since 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...

First updated edition since the Iraq War, incorporating a wide range of world events. von Singer, Peter

Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now, in Why Vegan?, Singer brings together the...

In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of...

Der Controller im Unternehmen sieht sich im Wandel der Zeit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung und Virtualisierung gegenüber. Dabei ist es wichtig, diese modernen Entwicklungen für sich nutzen zu können, und herauszufinden, wie sie zum...

Practical Ethics

How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with...

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In "Wie sollen wir leben? Ethik in einer egoistischen Zeit" untersucht der renommierte Philosoph Peter Singer die moralischen und ethischen Fragen, die sich uns im täglichen Leben stellen. Er argumentiert, dass unsere Handlungen oft von...

In "The Most Good You Can Do", Peter Singer erforscht das Konzept und die Bewegung des effektiven Altruismus. Er argumentiert, dass wir unsere Ressourcen (Zeit, Geld, Fähigkeiten) auf die effizienteste Weise einsetzen sollten, um so viel...