Ebook {Epub PDF} How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer

HOW ARE WE to LIVE? ETHICS in an AGE of SELF-INTEREST, by Peter Singer; and SELF-INTEREST: AN ANTHOLOGY of PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, Edited by Kelly Rogers. 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 www.doorway.ru by: How are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-interest G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series: Authors: Peter Singer, IRA W Decamp Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer, ter 4/5(2).

The answer is that we can live an ethical life.' In How Are We to Live? Peter Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often escape from the trap of meaninglessness, finding a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing than people whose goals are narrower and more self-centred. Peter Singer, in full Peter Albert David Singer, (born July 6, , Melbourne, Australia), Australian ethical and political philosopher best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement.. Singer's Jewish parents immigrated to Australia from Vienna in to escape Nazi persecution following the Anschluss. How are we to live? Ethics in an age of self-interest. Book written by the philosopher Peter Singer. It is in very good condition, it simply has a date noted on the first sheet, as you can see in the photographs.

"If we can detach ourselves from our own immediate preoccupations and look at the world as a whole and our place in it, there is something absurd about the idea that people should have trouble finding something to live for." Singer suggests that people who take an ethical approach to life often avoid the trap of meaninglessness, finding a deeper satisfaction in what they are doing than those people whose goals are narrower and more self-centered. We should live, not simply by reference to ourselves, but by reference to the needs of others, indeed by reference to the whole universe. Ethics is a matter of putting ourselves in the position of others before making any moral judgement of our own. How are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-interest G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series: Authors: Peter Singer, IRA W Decamp Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer, ter.