{"product_id":"the-moral-of-the-story-isbn-9781405105842","title":"The Moral of the Story","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Moral of the Story,\u003c\/i\u003e Peter and Renata Singer draw on some of the best works of fiction, playwriting, and poetry in order to shed light on the perennial questions of ethics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eA vivid montage of literature that touches on a broad range of ethical subjects and themes\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a unique contribution to the study of moral philosophy and literature\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how literary sources can add richness to discussions of real-life moral questions and dilemmas\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together selections and excerpts from the world’s most celebrated short stories, novels, plays, and poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures substantive section introductions by Peter and Renata Singer\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePeter Singer is a leading moral philosopher, widely credited with triggering the modern animal-rights movement. His collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eUnsanctifying Human Life,\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Helga Kuhse, was published by Blackwell Publishing in 2001.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePART ONE: PERSONAL MORAL ISSUES\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Who Am I?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRalph Ellison, from \u003ci\u003eInvisible\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMan\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, from \u003ci\u003ePuberty Blues.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin, from \u003ci\u003eGiovanni’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArthur Miller, from \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot, from \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTom Wolfe, from \u003ci\u003eBonfire of the Vanities.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eMacbeth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Duties to Kin\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. The Duties of Parents to their Children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Unnatural Mother”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Charles Dickens, from \u003ci\u003eBleak House.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Joseph Kanon, from \u003ci\u003eThe Good German\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. The Duties of Sisters and Brothers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Sophocles, from \u003ci\u003eAntigone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. The Duties of Children to their Parents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Zitkala-Ša, “The Soft-hearted Sioux”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Ambrose Bierce, “A Horseman in the Sky”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Alice Munro, from “The Peace of Utrecht”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Love, Marriage and Sex\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Jane Austen, from \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Vikram Seth, from \u003ci\u003eA Suitable Boy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Guy De Maupassant, “The Model”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Leo Tolstoy, from \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. George Eliot, from \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Daniel Defoe, from \u003ci\u003eMoll\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFlanders\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. John Cleland, from \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. George Bernard Shaw, from \u003ci\u003eMrs Warren’s Profession.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Abortion, Euthanasia and Suicide\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Maeve Binchy, from “Shepherd’s Bush”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Brian Clark, from \u003ci\u003eWhose Life is it Anyway?.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Kate Jennings, from \u003ci\u003eMoral Hazard\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eHamlet, Prince of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDenmark.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Arna Bontemps, “A Summer Tragedy”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Work Ethics\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Elizabeth Gaskell, from \u003ci\u003eNorth and South\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Edwin Seaver, from \u003ci\u003eThe Company\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Ruth Ozeki, from \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Henrik Ibsen, from \u003ci\u003eAn Enemy of the People\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. C.P. Snow, from \u003ci\u003eThe Search\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. What Do We Owe to Our Country, Compatriots and Strangers\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Euripedes, from \u003ci\u003eIphigeneia at\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAulis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Geraldine Brooks, from \u003ci\u003eYear of\u003c\/i\u003e Wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Ian McEwan, from \u003ci\u003eEnduring Love.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Nick Hornby, from \u003ci\u003eHow to be Good\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Joyce Carol Oates, “The Undesirable Table”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. Ethics and Politics\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. Anthony Trollope, from \u003ci\u003eCan You Forgive Her\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnonymous (Joe Klein), from \u003ci\u003ePrimary Colors\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthony Trollope, from \u003ci\u003ePhineas Finn.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII. Racism and Sexism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Harriet Beecher Stowe, from \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Lerone Bennett Jr., “The Convert”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Henryk Ibsen, from \u003ci\u003eThe Doll's House.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIX. War\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. Leo Tolstoy, from War and Peace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. Pat Barker, from \u003ci\u003eRegeneration.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. Wilfred Owen, “S.I.W.”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eKing He\u003c\/i\u003enry V (Act 3 .Scene 3).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51.William Shakespeare, from \u003ci\u003eKing Henry V\u003c\/i\u003e (Act 4, Scene 1).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. S.Yizhar, from “The Prisoner”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. John Fowles, from \u003ci\u003eThe Magus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. Animals and the Environment\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55. Desmond Stewart, “The Limits of Trooghaft”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56. Richard Adams, from \u003ci\u003eThe Plague Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57. Douglas Adams, from \u003ci\u003eRestaurant at the End of the Universe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58. James Fenimore Cooper, from \u003ci\u003eThe Pioneers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXI. Duties to God\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59. Aeschylus, from \u003ci\u003ePrometheus Bound.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60. Genesis 22, from \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Bible\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXII. New Life Forms.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62. Mary Shelley, from \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63. Karel Capek, from \u003ci\u003eThe Makropulos Secret.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART THREE: REFLECTING ON ETHICS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIII. The Nature of Ethics\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64. E. Pauline Johnson, “The Sea Serpent”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65. Daniel Defoe, from \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e [pp194-199].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66. Mark Twain, from \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67. Graham Greene, from \u003ci\u003eThe Third Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e68. Tadeusz Borowski, “This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentelemen”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXIV. Rules, Rights, Duties and The Greater Good\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e69. Ursula Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e70. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e71. Kazuo Ishiguro, from \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e72. Anthony Trollope, from \u003ci\u003eDr Wortle’s School.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e73. George Eliot, from \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e74. Harper Lee, from \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e75. William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 138” [“When my love swears that she is made of truth”?].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXV. Ultimate Values\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e76. Daniel Defoe, from \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e [pp148-149].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e77. Henry James, from \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e78. Aldous Huxley, from \u003ci\u003eBrave New World.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e79. Henry James, from \u003ci\u003eThe Princess Casamassima\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  “Shelley called poets ‘the unacknowledged legislators of the world.’ Peter and Renata Singer have made novelists and playwrights (and poets!), its acknowledged ethicists. An intriguing collection.” \u003ci\u003eRandy Cohen, writer of “The Ethicist” for the New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This excellent, wide-ranging anthology reminds us that there is as much ethics in Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky as in Kant or Mill. Philosophy departments should leave around copies for students to dip into and be inspired by.” \u003ci\u003eJonathan Glover, King’s College London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An essential and enriching anthology, selected with wisdom and care by Peter and Renata Singer…an invaluable light on the moral and ethical landscape.” \u003ci\u003eCarol Rocamora, New York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe Moral of the Story is an extremely stimulating collection. Its examples are mostly drawn from classics, but there are enough idiosyncratic contemporary choices to give it a distinct flavour.\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Ley, The Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePeter Singer\u003c\/b\u003e is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), and is widely credited with triggering the modern animal rights movement. His other books include \u003ci\u003ePractical Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003eRethinking Life and Death\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eOne World\u003c\/i\u003e (2002)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1991), \u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Animals: The Second Wave\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2005), and, with Helga Kuhse, of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1999) and \u003ci\u003eBioethics: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1999). A collection of his best essays on ethics, \u003ci\u003eUnsanctifying Human Life,\u003c\/i\u003e edited by Helga Kuhse, was published by Blackwell in 2002. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenata Singer\u003c\/b\u003e has taught in Oxfordshire and New Jersey, developed anti-racist programs in Sydney and written about development programs in South Africa, El Salvador, and Ethiopia. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Front of the Family\u003c\/i\u003e,was published in 2002. Among her non-fiction works are the books \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories from the Land of Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e (with Nelly Zola, 1995) and \u003ci\u003eGoodbye and Hello\u003c\/i\u003e (with Susie Orzech, 1985).\u003c\/p\u003e  In a society increasingly divided about moral values, we need to reflect on the ethics we hold. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat do we owe to our children…to our elderly parents…to strangers?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs it always wrong to lie?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWith whom may we have sex, and who should we marry?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs a leader who takes his country to war responsible for the foreseeable deaths of civilians?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShould we create new forms of life?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShould we value beauty, even above human suffering?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDoes morality hold even in the death camps?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre morals relative?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreat writers have long wrestled with these questions, often adding depth and a more human dimension than we get from the abstract reasoning of philosophers. In \u003ci\u003eThe Moral of the Story,\u003c\/i\u003e Peter and Renata Singer bring together an engrossing collection of fiction, drama, and poetry that stimulates the reader to think about the perennial questions of ethics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhether you read this book from cover to cover, or dip in to whatever selections pique your curiosity, you will find yourself absorbed in the stories and situations, and provoked to think again about your own values, as well as about today’s controversial moral issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990290874597,"sku":"NP9781405105842","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405105842.jpg?v=1761787225","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-moral-of-the-story-isbn-9781405105842","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}