What is Ethics? Where Does It Come From? Can We Really Hope to Find Any Rational Way of Deciding How We Ought to Live? If We Can, What Would It Be Like, and How Are We Going to Know When We Have Found It?;This Unconventional Reader Captures the Essentials of What is Known About the Origins and Nature of Ethics. Peter Singer Has Drawn on Athropology, History, Game Theory and Works of Fiction, in Addition to Moral Philosophy. by Choosing Some of He Finest Pieces of Writing, New and Old, He Conveys the Intellectual Excitement of the Search for Answers to Basic Questions About How We Ought to Live. Peter Singer is the Author of "Animal Liberation a New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals", "Practical Ethics", "Marx" and "Hegel" ("Past Masters"), "Should the Baby Live? (With Helga Huhse), and Editor of "A Companion to Ethics".