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Practical Ethics, a 1979 book by the moral philosopher Peter Singer, is an introduction to applied ethics. Singer analyzes, in detail, why and how beings'

Applied ethics is the practical aspect of moral considerations. It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in private

acting moderately. Aristotle emphasized that virtue is practical, and that the purpose of ethics is to become good, not merely to know. Aristotle also

been theoretical, and concerned with natural science. Ethics, Aristotle claimed, is practical rather than theoretical, in the Aristotelian senses of

normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines

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(1979). Practical ethics (1st ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29720-2.:Singer, Peter (1993). Practical ethics (2nd ed

in Mental Philosophy (founded in 1898) The Uehiro Professorship of Practical Ethics (founded in 2003). The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy is awarded annually

In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation

moral philosopher Jeff McMahan in 2018. Singer's Practical Ethics (1979) is a seminal book in applied ethics, where he systematically applies a preference