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Animal Liberation - Peter Singer

Animal Liberation

By Peter Singer

  • Release Date: 2015-04-14
  • Genre: Philosophy
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 27 Ratings

Description

The groundbreaking and “important” book about animal rights by the author of Ethics in the Real World—including a new preface (Chicago Tribune).

First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world’s philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer’s landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that all beings capable of suffering deserve equal consideration, Singer contends that the only justifiable treatment of animals is that which maximizes good and minimizes suffering. In examining the cruelty of factory farming and the exploitation, both commercial and scientific, of laboratory animals, he identifies a kind of “ethical blindness” and calls for political action.
 
A moral wake-up call from one of the most influential and controversial ethicists of our time, Animal Liberation tackles an emotionally charged social issue with a compelling rational argument in a rousing and riveting read.
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Reviews

  • The Importance of Logic and Reasoning

    5
    By maximax709
    Human beings are not the beings we think we are, I’d argue. The many ways in which we justify our exploitation of other sentient beings are often, and perhaps ubiquitously, fallacious, and thoroughly debunked in this book
  • Absolute Reason and Truth

    5
    By Thegodfather8709
    I can say nothing more than this book changed my life. Knowledge is power and the contents of this book has not only made me aware of great suffering but liberated me from the chains of behaviors I had taken for granted.
  • Absolute classic

    5
    By JasonGillis
    Two reviews for this one, here, and big surprise... one is a troll. Ignore that troll! This book is widely considered to be a classic, and with good reason. I first read it back in 1992, when I was in high school, and it changed my life forever. This, along with John Robbins’ classic Diet For A New America, are requisite readings for anyone who is sincerely interested in the sad reality of our treatment of animals, factory farming, and the disease and environmental degradation that results. This book is an absolute paradigm shifter. A must read for any serious ethical vegetarian; it will most likely turn you vegan. Did for me, and I never looked back.
  • Worst book ever

    1
    By hgfkfk
    I have never in my entire life been so bored reading a book. It is a general waste of time and money. I do not recommend anyone read this book.
  • Changed my life

    5
    By O'maas
    I read this book first in 1979 and it opened up a whole new world for me. I was isolated and heartened to find that someone else thought the way I did. Peter Singer's thorough exploration of the topic exposed me to many other pervasive ways non-human animals are abused and commodified that had never occurred to me. It's must read book.

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