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Title The moral of the story : an anthology of ethics through literature / edited by Peter Singer and Renata Singer
Published Oxford : Blackwell, 2005
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishing, 2005
©2005

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Description xiv, 621 pages ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Personal moral issues -- Who am I? -- Duties to kin -- Love, marriage and sex -- Abortion, euthanasia, and suicide -- The community and beyond -- Work -- What do we owe to our country, compatriots, and strangers? -- Ethics and politics -- Racism and sexism -- War -- Animals and the environment -- Duties to God -- New life forms -- Reflecting on ethics -- The nature of ethics -- Rules, rights, duties, and the greater good -- Ultimate values -- Issues
Summary "In The Moral of the Story, Peter and Renata Singer bring together a collection of fiction, drama, and poetry that stimulates the reader to think about the perennial questions of ethics."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Literature and morals.
Moral conditions in literature.
Religion -- Literary collections.
Social problems -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Literary collections.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics -- Literary collections.
Genre/Form Anthologie
Author Singer, Peter, editor
Singer, Renata, editor
LC no. 2004016927
ISBN 1405105844 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
1405105836 (alkaline paper)