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Practical Ethics
Cover of the 1980 edition
AuthorPeter Singer
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEthics
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date
1979 (first edition)
1993 (second edition)
2011 (third edition)
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages395 (second edition)
ISBN0-521-43971-X (second edition paperback)

Practical Ethics, a 1979 book by the moral philosopher Peter Singer, is an introduction to applied ethics.

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been theoretical, and concerned with natural science. Ethics, Aristotle claimed, is practical rather than theoretical, in the Aristotelian senses of...

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acting moderately. Aristotle emphasized that virtue is practical, and that the purpose of ethics is to become good, not merely to know. Aristotle also...

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experience, practical reason, and the consequences of actions. An influential development in the 20th century was the emergence of metaethics. Ethics, also...

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applied ethics, the consideration of detailed practical cases in bioethics, animal ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, computer ethics and other...

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duty), in virtue ethics, one does the right thing because it is in one's own interests. Part of training in practical virtue ethics is to come to see...

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founder of the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education, in 1987, and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, in 2003. Uehiro was born in Kumamoto...

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human good in older Greek tradition. It is the aim of practical philosophy-prudence, including ethics and political philosophy, to consider and experience...

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other practice. Examples of practical philosophy subjects are: Ethics Aesthetics Decision theory Political philosophy Practical philosophy is also the use...

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for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) is a non-profit professional organization that supports research, training, and education in practical and...

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chairman of the Management Committee of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Originally from Brentwood, Essex, Crisp began his higher education...

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Janet Radcliffe Richards

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at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and posts regularly at the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News...

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Medical Education at this university and directs its Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life. He holds a B.A. from Guilford College, a B.D. from...

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