Contents
Introduction
THE NATURE OF ETHICS
Moral Experts
FROM Analysis
About Ethics
FROM Practical Ethics
ACROSS THE SPECIES BARRIER
Preface to the 1975 Edition
FROM Animal Liberation
All Animals Are Equal …
FROM Animal Liberation
Tools for Research
FROM Animal Liberation
Down on the Factory Farm …
FROM Animal Liberation
A Vegetarian Philosophy
FROM Consuming Passions
Bridging the Gap
Environmental Values
FROM The Environmental Challenge
SAVING AND TAKING HUMAN LIFE
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
FROM Philosophy and Public Affairs
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
FROM The New York Times Magazine
What’s Wrong with Killing?
FROM Practical Ethics
Taking Life: The Embryo and the Fetus
FROM Practical Ethics
Prologue
FROM Rethinking Life and Death
Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill?
FROM Bioethics
Justifying Infanticide
FROM Practical Ethics
Justifying Voluntary Euthanasia
FROM Practical Ethics
Euthanasia: Emerging from Hitler’s Shadow
In Place of the Old Ethic
FROM Rethinking Life and Death
ETHICS, SELF-INTEREST, AND POLITICS
The Ultimate Choice
FROM How Are We to Live?
Living Ethically
FROM How Are We to Live?
The Good Life
FROM How Are We to Live?
Darwin for the Left
FROM Prospect
A Meaningful Life
FROM Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Animal Liberation: A Personal View
FROM Between the Species
On Being Silenced in Germany
FROM The New York Review of Books
An Interview
Notes
Permissions
Index
Acknowledgments
A Biography of Peter Singer