A German Attack on Applied Ethics [1]: A statement by Peter Singer

ABSTRACT In Germany, applied ethics is under attack from a diverse coalition of left-wing organisations, disability groups, and some conservative defenders of a strict doctrine of the sanctity of human life. The attack has been pressed to the point of forcing the cancellation of conferences and disrupting lectures or classes so that they cannot take place. This essay describes the extent and nature of the attack, and makes a preliminary assessment of its significance.