Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save.
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
I chose this book particularly because we are having a lively discussion about freedom of expression today. Some of the challenges to freedom of expression today come from the left rather than from the right, although some of them still do come from the right. In this context, Mill's arguments are still relevant and deserve to be more widely known and more widely thought about.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
In order to understand Marx, you really do need to know something about Hegel. It's a mistake to think you could read Marx as a scientist or an economist without understanding the Hegelian framework of his thought. That's why I chose to begin with Hegel.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
I chose The Communist Manifesto, rather than, say, Capital because it shows in a much easier-to-read, shorter work something that is central to Marx's vision.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
I like The Descent of Man better than The Origin of Species because Darwin is prepared to be much bolder in The Descent of Man. In The Origin of Species he was still a little bit timid.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
Parfit himself said that The Methods of Ethics contains more true statements about ethics than any other work: it builds on the work of other great scholars, but it contains more truth than other works. I do think it is a wonderful work, and if it is not the best book written on ethics, I'd like to know what is.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer
But I hope if they read our Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, they'll at least have some idea why he is so significant.
on fivebooks.com · 18 May 2018
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