Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory

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Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory The Importance of Human Dignity

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Susan Lufkin Krantz

Book Code: C7083

ISBN: 0-275-97083-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97083-3

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152 pages, N/A

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 1/30/2002

List Price: $81.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Krantz's book would be appropriate in undergraduate ethics courses. It also would be useful in thinking through the role and nature of argument in philosophical discourse. Krantz intends her arguments to be comprehensible to laypeople who are nonphilosophers. Recommended for general readers through faculty.
—Choice October 2002
...I recommend this book to anyone interested in practical ethics. People who perhaps have read about Singer in the popular media and want to learn more should read it.
—Metapsychology Online Review July 15, 2002

Description: Krantz provides a defense of traditional, human-centered ethics against Peter Singer's ethical theory. Singer favors a "Copernican revolution" in ethics because he thinks our traditional ethics has collapsed under pressure from medical technology and from advances in the biological understanding of our fellow animals. For nearly thirty years he has argued that the boundaries of the human lifespan and of the human species are so unclear that we must abandon our views that human beings have a special dignity and that the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. Against this Krantz argues that in today's world, human life has been cheapened and the values of the marketplace have begun to govern medical care and organ donation, birth and death. In fact, this is just a foretaste of the world to come if Singer's ethical theory succeeds in replacing traditional human-centered ethics. What is required is, not the abandonment of human dignity and of the sanctity of human life, but rather a renewed understanding of how principles based on these ideas can be applied in the twenty-first century. Scholars, students, and general readers involved with ethical and contemporary philosophy issues will find this book interesting.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The Goal of Ethics
The Source of Moral Value
The Role of Reason in Ethics
The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests
Why Singer's Principle of Equal Consideration is a Threat to Morality and Human Values
On Human Dignity
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 2001036696

LCC Class: B5704

Dewey Class: 170


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