Peter Singer
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John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, R.M. Hare, Jeremy Bentham
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Animal Liberation
96 editions
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1975
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
41 editions
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2009
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Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
35 editions
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2016
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The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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39 editions
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2006
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
34 editions
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2015
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Practical Ethics
53 editions
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published
1979
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Marx: A Very Short Introduction
48 editions
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1980
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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
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1983
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Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
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2023
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality
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1972
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“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.”
― Animal Liberation
― Animal Liberation
“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
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“If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”
― Animal Liberation
― Animal Liberation
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