Description |
xiv, 621 pages ; 25 cm |
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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.
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Moral conditions in literature.
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Religion -- Literary collections.
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Social problems -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Literary collections.
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics -- Literary collections.
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Genre/Form |
Anthologie
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Author |
Singer, Peter, editor
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Singer, Renata, editor
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LC no. |
2004016927 |
ISBN |
1405105844 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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1405105836 (alkaline paper) |
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