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The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature

The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature Paperback / softback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Peter Singer

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Paperback / softback. New. Aims to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics. This work demonstrates how literary sources can add richness to discussions of real-life moral questions and dilemmas. It brings together selections and excerpts from some of the world's most celebrated short stories, novels, plays, and poetry.
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  • Title The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature
  • Author Peter Singer
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-02-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781405105842
  • ISBN 9781405105842 / 1405105844
  • Weight 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 6.74 x 1.33 in (24.64 x 17.12 x 3.38 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004016927
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.803

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From the rear cover

In a society increasingly divided about moral values, we need to reflect on the ethics we hold.



  • What do we owe to our children...to our elderly parents...to strangers?

  • Is it always wrong to lie?

  • With whom may we have sex, and who should we marry?

  • Is a leader who takes his country to war responsible for the foreseeable deaths of civilians?

  • Should we create new forms of life?

  • Should we value beauty, even above human suffering?

  • Does morality hold even in the death camps?

  • Are morals relative?


Great writers have long wrestled with these questions, often adding depth and a more human dimension than we get from the abstract reasoning of philosophers. In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer bring together an engrossing collection of fiction, drama, and poetry that stimulates the reader to think about the perennial questions of ethics.


Whether you read this book from cover to cover, or dip in to whatever selections pique your curiosity, you will find yourself absorbed in the stories and situations, and provoked to think again about your own values, as well as about today's controversial moral issues.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1816
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 84

About the author

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of Animal Liberation (1975), and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. His other books include Practical Ethics (1979), Rethinking Life and Death (1995) and One World (2002). He is also the editor of A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell, 1991), In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave (Blackwell, 2005), and, with Helga Kuhse, of A Companion to Bioethics (Blackwell, 1999) and Bioethics: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1999). A collection of his best essays on ethics, Unsanctifying Human Life, edited by Helga Kuhse, was published by Blackwell in 2002.


Renata Singer has taught in Oxfordshire and New Jersey, developed anti-racist programs in Sydney and written about development programs in South Africa, El Salvador, and Ethiopia. Her first novel, The Front of the Family, was published in 2002. Among her non-fiction works are the books True Stories from the Land of Divorce (with Nelly Zola, 1995) and Goodbye and Hello (with Susie Orzech, 1985).