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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The need for a new foundation -- What is essential to the left? -- 1 Politics and Darwinism -- The right-wing takeover -- Facts and values -- How the left got Darwin wrong -- The dream of perfectibility -- Old tunes keep coming back -- 2 Can the Left Accept a Darwinian View of Human Nature? -- Unpopular ideas -- What is fixed and what is variable in human nature? -- How can reformers leam from Darwin? -- 3 Competition or Cooperation? -- Building a more cooperative society -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Learning from Tit for Tat -- 4 From Cooperation to Altruism? -- The puzzle of the evolution of altruism -- Status for what? -- 5 A Darwinian Left for Today and Beyond -- Notes and References.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 2011 EDITION -- PREFACE -- 1: THE ORIGINS OF ALTRUISM -- 2: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF ETHICS -- 3: FROM EVOLUTION TO ETHICS? -- 4: REASON -- 5: REASON AND GENES -- 6: A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF ETHICS -- NOTES ON SOURCES -- AFTERWORD TO THE 2011 EDITION -- INDEX

For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when others do not have enough to eat? Should we buy meat from intensively reared animals? Am I doing something wrong if my carbon footprint is above the global average? Other questions confront us as concerned citizens: equality and discrimination on the grounds of race or sex; abortion, the use of embryos for research and euthanasia; political violence and terrorism; and the preservation of our planet's environment. This book's lucid style and provocative arguments make it an ideal text for university courses and for anyone willing to think about how she or he ought to live.

Known for his thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalization. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's world. Singer raises questions about such an ethic and, more importantly, he seeks to provide illuminating and practical answers. The text encompasses four main global issues: climate change; the role of the World Trade Organization; human rights and humanitarian intervention; and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. Posing a bold challenge to narrow or nationalistic views, Singer aims to present a realistic, new way of looking at contemporary global issues, through a prism of ethics.