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Online-Ressource (844 p.)
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Online-Ausg.
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9780812696189
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One of the leading ethical thinkers of the modern age, Peter Singer has repeatedly been embroiled in controversy. Protesters in Germany closed down his lectures, mistakenly thinking he was advocating Nazi views on eugenics. Conservative publisher Steve Forbes withdrew generous donations to Princeton after Singer was appointed professor of bioethics. His belief that infanticide is sometimes morally justified has appalled people from all walks of life. Peter Singer Under Fire gives a platform to his critics on many contentious issues. Leaders of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet attack Si
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Title Page; The Under Fire™ Series; Dedication; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Singer's Burden: Suffering and the Man; An Intellectual Autobiography; I - THE MORAL STATUS OF ANIMALS; 1 - The Human Prejudice; Reply to Bernard Williams; A Rare Defense of Speciesism; Taking an Impartial Perspective; Is Speciesism Like Racism and Sexism?; "Which Side Are You On?"; 2 - Justifying Animal Use; I. Utilitarianism and Animals' Pain; II. Our Use of Animals; III. Preferences and Quality of Life; IV. Vegetarianism as Protest; Reply to R.G. Frey; Beyond Speciesism and Absolutism
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Why We Should Be VegetarianComparing Utilities; II - THE SANCTITY OF LIFE; 3 - Singer on Abortion and Infanticide; The Sanctity of Human Life; Why Killing Is Wrong; Respect for Autonomy; Classical Utilitarianism; Preference Utilitarianism; Why Persons Have a Right to Life; Infanticide; Why the Tooley-Singer Theory Is Unsatisfactory; Strategies for Repairing the Tooley-Singer View; The Future of Value Account of the Wrongness of Killing; Potentiality; Human Embryos; Conclusion; Reply to Don Marquis; A Critique from Shared Premises; Two Counterexamples; Preferences and False Beliefs
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When Did I Begin?What Am I?; 4 - Singer's Unsanctity of Human Life: A Critique; Moral Hero, But; Animal Liberation and Infanticide; Singer's Views about Killing Infants; Three Initial Problems; Maximize Preferences or Pleasure?; Act or Rule Utilitarianism?; Conclusion; Reply to Harry J. Gensler; Philosophy, Utilitarianism, and Reticence; Animal Liberation and Infanticide; When Killing Is Wrong; Preference Utilitarianism or Hedonistic Utilitarianism?; Act- or Rule- Utilitarianism?; Gensler's Defense of the Sanctity of Human Life
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5 - Unspeakable Conversations, or, How I Spent One Day as a Token Cripple at ...My Dinner with Peter; Sympathy for the Monster; Afterword; Reply to Harriet McBryde Johnson; Disability and the Quality of Life; Caring for the Irreversibly Unconscious; The Philosopher and the Activist; Disability Rights and Speciesism; A Final Challenge; Postscript; 6 - Not Dead Yet!; Reply to Stephen Drake; Charges Without Substance; Not Dead Yet Fails to Defend Those Who Are Not Dead Yet; Defending a Mother's Decision; Bioethics and the Medical Profession
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Who Represents People with Severe Intellectual Disabilities?III - GLOBAL ETHICS; 7 - Famine, Affluence, and Psychology; I; II; III; IV; VI; VI; VII; Reply to Judith Lichtenberg; Obligation and Charity; Doing Good, Privately; From Philosophy to Psychology; 8 - What Do We Owe to Distant Needy Strangers?; Demanding Too Much?; Allowing Personal Projects; Following Common Sense?; Further Anti-Singer Strategies; Swallowing Singer's Stone; Distinguishing Moral Principles, Moral Codes, and Blameworthiness; Reintroducing Options of a Sort; Conclusion; Reply to Richard Arneson
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Utilitarians and Close Personal Relationships
Additional Edition:
9780812697698
Additional Edition:
Print version Peter Singer Under Fire : The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics
Language:
English
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