One World Now, Peter Singer
One World Now, Peter Singer
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One World Now
The Ethics of Globalization

Author: Peter Singer

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/16/2018

Synopsis

One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. Every issue is considered from an ethical perspective. This thoughtful and important study poses bold challenges to narrow nationalistic views and offers valuable alternatives to the state-centric approach that continues to dominate ethics and international theory. Singer argues powerfully that we cannot solve the world’s problems at a national level, and shows how we should build on developments that are already transcending national differences. This is an instructive and necessary work that confronts head-on both the perils and the potentials inherent in globalization.

About Peter Singer

Peter Singer is a renowned philosopher, professor, and author. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him third among global thought leaders for 2013.

Peter has written, coauthored, edited, or coedited more than forty books, including Practical Ethics, The Expanding Circle, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), and The Most Good You Can Do. His works have appeared in more than twenty-five languages.

Peter 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. Since 2005 he has combined that position with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mr. on December 04, 2013

Peter Singer has long since proven himself to be one of the most important and influential ethical utilitarian philosophers of the 20th century. However, when Singer steps into the realm of politics things get a little murky; this book, "One World" is an analysis of Globalization and its effects, an......more

Goodreads review by Otto on August 12, 2019

Nothing is more important than developing ethical principles for a global society. And nobody is more qualified to speak on the subject than a world class philosopher like Peter Singer. It therefore breaks my heart to tell you that this book falls diabolically short of those high expectations. Don't......more

Goodreads review by Joe on January 06, 2015

I love/hate reading Peter Singer because his ethical arguments are so clear and logical that he almost invariably succeeds in making me feel guilty. In that it makes me reflect on the morality of my own lifestyle this is a good thing. In One World, Singer is strongest at the individual level, advoca......more

Goodreads review by Jasper on April 19, 2017

Although I do not entirely agree. It was a good read......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on December 30, 2018

I think the ordering of chapters within this book could have been managed a bit more effectively, opening with the foundational philosophical principles that undergird the inevitably of globalization and the ethical issues that arise, followed by the more practical justifications including climate c......more

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