Ebook {Epub PDF} Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer

 · Rethinking life and death: the collapse of our traditional ethics. User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. Singer (Animal Liberation, LJ 3/15/ 2d ed.) calls for a revolution in ethical 5/5(1). Peter Singer’s Rethinking life and death: The collapse of our traditional ethics is a milestone in bioethics literature. It addresses straight out the challenges posed by biomedical practices, requiring a profound revision of the prevailing www.doorway.ru: Maria Casado. Fascinating and thought provoking, in Rethinking Life and Death, Singer shows how and why the western world has already started moving away from the Judeo-Christian sanctity of human life ethic. He sites the emphasis on 'brain death' and the acceptance of Galileo's discovery that we (humans) are not the center of the universe as the beginnings of the break down of this ethical www.doorway.ru by:

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Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of death, abortion, euthanasia, and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place. A profound and provocative work, Rethinking Life and Death, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twenty-first century. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Politics. Medical. pages, Paperback. First published April 1, Original Title. On 4 February Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life. Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook.