Rethinking Peter Singer

From: Ethics & Medicine | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Rethinking Peter Singer Gordon Preece, Editor Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8308-2682-3; 180 pages, paperback, $18.00

Peter Singer is the bete noire of contemporary ethics, particularly so for those of us who hold to traditional understandings of moral values. It is safe to say that Singer takes what readers of this journal would consider the wrong view on every substantive issue in bioethics today, and he does so to an increasingly wide audience in society. The Australian thinker has been well known to philosophers for decades for his work in ethical theory and ...

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