Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

De Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna; Singer, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198728794 ISBN 13: 9780198728795

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2017

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In this Very Short Introduction Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek provide an authoritative account of the nature of utilitarianism, from its nineteenth-century origins, to its justification and its varieties.

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Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is a Polish utilitarian philosopher, working as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Lodz. She is the author of several articles in Polish and English on Henry Sidgwick, utilitarianism, bioethics, and philosophy for children, and, with Peter Singer, has co-authored The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics (OUP, 2014). She is currently working on a book on happiness.

Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour. His books include Animal Liberation (1975; Bodley Head, 2015), Practical Ethics (1979; CUP, 2011), The Life You Can Save (Picador, 2010), and The Most Good You Can Do (Yale University Press, 2015).

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198728794
• ISBN 13: 9780198728795
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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