Editorial Review:

The new commandments according to Rethinking Life and Death.
--If you must take human life, take responsibility for the consequences of your decisions.
--All human life is not of equal worth; treat beings in accordance to the ethical situation at hand.
--Respect a person's desire to live or die.
A profound and provocative work, Rethinking Life and Death, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twenty-first century.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

The collapse of Western Civilization:

With Singer's logical lapses and anti-human, anti-humanitarian biases he lead his readers and followers into collapse of Western Civilization as we know it.
It is very scary that this book, and those like it, receive positive feedback. What a tragedy.
P.S. I have heard recently Singer debate live at Biola university and watched him debate on DVD. And while his "performance" based human value may look attractive at first to some, it is dangerously closely to ANY sort of discrimination based on... more info

Another Well-Written Must Read by Singer:

I never would have thought that I would come across a work of non-fiction that I couldn't put down, but here it is!
Fascinating and thought provoking, in Rethinking Life and Death, Singer shows how and why the western world has already started moving away from the Judeo-Christian sanctity of human life ethic. He sites the emphasis on 'brain death' and the acceptance of Galileo's discovery that we (humans) are not the center of the universe as the beginnings of the break down of this ethical system.more info

BEWARE of this man!!:

Do you believe this man calls himself a professor of ETHICS?!?
From page 210: "Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. THEY ARE NOT PERSONS. Hence their lives would seem to be NO MORE WORTHY OF PROTECTION than the life of a fetus." (emphasis / capitalization added)
From page 217: "In our book, Should the Baby Live?, my colleague Helga Kuhse and I suggested that a period of TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS AFTER BIRTH might be allowed before an infant is accepted as... more info

Another great book by Peter Singer:

I am a great fan of Peter Singer and this book has further strengthened my respect for him. The book starts by examining the inconsistencies and weak ethical foundations of the "sanctity of human life" ethic. He provides numerous examples of situations that have occurred since the invention of the respirator in the 1950's where the application of this ethic has led to disastrous outcomes. He describes the many inconsistent and arbitrary "patches" that we have applied to shore up this ethic, concluding that... more info

Similar Products:

Practical Ethics by Peter Singer (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

[no image] The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer, Jim Mason (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics) by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (For and Against) by Gerald Dworkin, R. G. Frey, Sissela Bok (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition (The Terry Lectures... by Peter Singer (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Life and Death: A Reader in Moral Problems by Louis P. Pojman (Paperback) - Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks