How long does it take to read Ethics in the Real World?
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer takes about 6 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 346 pages, about 95,150 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news.
Subjects: Ethics, Social ethics, Self-interest, Essays
