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این مجموعه‌مقالات، نوشتۀ پیتر سینگر، استاد اخلاق زیستی دانشگاه پرینستون، با نسخه‌های پیشین تفاوت‌هایی دارد که پاره‌ای از این تفاوت‌ها به‌دلیل تغییراتی است که در جهان امروز نسبت به دهۀ گذشته رخ داده است. خوانندگانی که از پیش با دیدگاه‌های سینگر در برخی موضوعات آشنایی دارند، ممکن است از خواندن نظرات او در مورد موضوعات دیگر شگفت‌زده شوند. او می‌کوشد ذهنی باز داشته باشد، پذیرای شواهد باشد و صرفاً دنباله‌روی خط مشی‌های سیاسی مرسوم نباشد. اگر هنوز مجاب نشده‌اید که فیلسوفان می‌توانند در گستره‌ای از مسائل عمومی نقشی مؤثر ایفا کنند، امیدواریم این مجموعه شما را متقاعد کند. مهم‌تر از آن، امیدواریم این اثر شما را متقاعد کند که برای حل بسیاری از مشکلاتی که با آن مواجه‌ایم لازم است به شیوه‌ای دربارۀ ابعاد اخلاقی آن‌ها بحث کنیم که از جناح‌بندی‌های سیاسی-حزبی فراتر برود و بهترین راه‌حل‌ها را برای تمام افرادِ تحت‌تأثیر این مشکلات بیابد.

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Peter Singer

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Peter Singer is sometimes called "the world’s most influential living philosopher" although he thinks that if that is true, it doesn't say much for all the other living philosophers around today. He has also been called the father (or grandfather?) of the modern animal rights movement, even though he doesn't base his philosophical views on rights, either for humans or for animals.


In 2005 Time magazine named Singer one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him 3rd among Global Thought Leaders for 2013. (He has since slipped to 36th.) He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethics, and for his writings on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. 


Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its “All-TIME” list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), The Most Good You Can Do, Ethics in the Real World and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction. His works have appeared in more than 30 languages.

Singer’s book The Life You Can Save, first published in 2009, led him to found a non-profit organization of the same name. In 2019, Singer got back the rights to the book and granted them to the organization, enabling it to make the eBook and audiobook versions available free from its website, www.thelifeyoucansave.org.



Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is married, with three daughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation’s highest civic honour.

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