Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction

by Peter Singer and Katarzyna De Lazari-Radek

Book Overview

Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. Would it, for example, be right to torture a suspected terrorist in order to prevent an attack that could kill and injure a large number of innocent people?

In this Very Short...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198728794
• ISBN13: 9780198728795
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.8"