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How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest is a 1993 book about applied ethics by moral philosopher Peter Singer. Singer argues that doing the right thing involves attending to the sufferings and preferences of other sentient beings.
Jan 1, 1993 · How Are We to Live? explores the way in which standard contemporary assumptions about human nature and self-interest have led to a world that is fraught with social and environmental problems. Singer asks whether selfishness is in our genes and concludes that we do not have to accept the bleak view of human nature sometimes believed to be ...
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May 1, 1995 · In this book peter Singer posits as an existential problem the question of the meaning of one's life and asserts almost as a given that the pursuit of material success is not a satisfying answer to this question. The pursuit of self interest is individually and collectively self-defeating he writes.
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Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest. by Peter Singer. Recommendations from our site. “Even though I’m not a utilitarian, and so I tend to disagree with Singer in terms of the general framework, this book literally changed my life. I read it many years ago, in the 1990s, when I was in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Oct 4, 2012 · How are we to live? Bookreader Item Preview ... How are we to live? by Peter Singer. Publication date 1995 Topics Ethics., Social ethics., Self-interest. Publisher
-- Using up the world -- How we came to be living this way -- Is selfishness in our genes? -- How the Japanese live -- Tit for tat -- Living ethically -- The nature of ethics -- Living to some purpose -- The good 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...
