Full name: How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest

Author: Peter Singer Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780879759667 0879759666

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. He spells out what he means by an ethical approach to life and shows that it can bring about significant and far-reaching changes to one's life. 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 inevitable, given our evolutionary origins. Similar books: Practical Ethics by Peter Singer Being Good by Simon Blackburn Causing Death and Saving Lives by Jonathan Glover Lying by Sissela Bok Ethics by Simon Blackburn Ethics by J. L. Mackie Would You Kill the Fat Man? by David Edmonds 101 Ethical Dilemmas by Martin Cohen Moral Luck by Bernard Williams Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre Animal Liberation by Peter Singer The Notebooks of Simone Weil by Simone Weil A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham