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The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature Paperback / softback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Peter Singer
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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
- 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.
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Citations
- Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1816
- Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 84