Name: Ethics in the Real World
ISBN: 9780691172477

Ethics in the Real World

In Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. 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 high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news.

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jwood27Mar 2022

The following have all had a significant effect on my worldview. You can find more information at [1].

- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

- Thinking, Fast and Slow

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Crime and Punishment

- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

- The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

- Franny and Zooey

- Master of the Senate

- Atlas Shrugged

- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

- Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

- Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

- Humankind: A Hopeful History

- The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

[1] https://jacobw.xyz/books/

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Jun8Sep 2019

Applied Ethics is a great book, though a bit pricey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198750676

Ethics In The Real World is good, too: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30272030-ethics-in-the-r...

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grzmNov 2016

Stop bringing up good things I should read! I'll never get caught up! :) I picked up Peter Singer's "Ethics in the Real World" the other day to add more grist to the mill in nice, bite-size chunks on a variety of topics. His piece on free speech came to mind when I looked up Jordan Peterson.

I encourage you to put down your thoughts in this area, as I think I'd enjoy reading them, and maybe even up-vote your submission. Guess I'm revealing my bias.

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