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One World Now

The Ethics of Globalization

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One World Now

By: Peter Singer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
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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 tells 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.

©2016 Peter Singer (P)2018 Tantor 21st Century Ethics & Morality Globalization International Relations Modern Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Socialism Africa Taxation Capitalism

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"This is a valuable update to a book that excels at examining competing solutions for some of the world's critical economic, environmental, and political problems." (David A. Rezvani, Dartmouth College)
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Peter Singer manages to merge moral philosophy with a realistic world view to write about the biggest opportunity we have to significantly and effectively decrease suffering, and why we might have the moral responsability to do so.

Extraordinarily interesting read!

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Peter Singer draws from global databases, philosophers young and old, and on carefully crafted hypothetical circumstances that help frame a clear argument to how an ethical person ought to view global governance.

Fantastic book, well done. Great narrator.

Brilliant

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Peter Singer puts forward important arguments on important topics. The book is just the right length and clearly stated. Love it!

Important and clear. Great!

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Peter Singer wrote this book in 2002 and almost 20 years later it seems like it has just been written. A good exercise of thinking about solutions for the present and future as well as the need of a change on the ethics of world if we want to stay alive and living in a beautiful world.

Great book and great performance

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This book seemingly does a poor job of persuading anyone who isn’t already convinced of the author’s viewpoint. This is managed by the author failing to make a decent argument for his obvious stance on climate change. The fills a vast majority of the book’s body with sentences that read like media-ready clickbait disaster headlines. The author gives suggestions to improve existing policies and attitudes that are reactionary and too radical. Those who don’t already think this way will be unlikely to change from their currently thinking to what is proposed in this book. Everything in this book is true, yet the book itself serves as nothing more than confirmation bias for those already on the political left.

Dramatic text read with melodramatic flair

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