• 1. Introduction


• 2. Sex


• 3. Environment


• 4. Smoking


• 5. Giving Aid


• 6. Consuming animals


• 7. Language


• 8. Humour


• 9. Bullshit


• 10. Forgiveness


• 11. Conclusion


• Index

David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. His books, which have been translated into multiple languages, include Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (Oxford 2006), The Second Sexism: Discrimination against men and boys (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and The Human Predicament: A candid guide to life's biggest questions (Oxford, 2017). He has held visiting positions at Brandeis, Emory, and Princeton universities, the United States' National Institutes of Health, as well as at Western University, and the University of Toronto.

In Very Practical Ethics David Benatar discusses some of the moral problems that ordinary people face in their everyday lives. These are not moral problems that arise only in extraordinary circumstances, nor those which are confronted only by select people in their professional or public roles; rather, they are problems that most people face on a daily basis. Written accessibly and covering topics not often discussed by moral philosophers, Very Practical Ethics will be of interest to students and other readers who care about how we might resolve the kinds of ethical issues we all face every day.