Living high and letting die : our illusion of innocence / Peter Unger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unger, Peter K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Generosity.

Life and death, Power over.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Living high & letting die

Our illusion of innocence

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The view known as Liberationism, which holds that moral intuitions are often unreflective of basic values, contrasts with the more common view known as Preservationism, which maintains that our moral intuitions accord with our basic moral values. This book explores the inconsistencies in the Preservationist position.

Contents:

Illusions of innocence: an introduction

Living high and letting die: a puzzle about behavior toward people in great need

Living high, stealing and letting die: the main truth of some related puzzles

Between some rocks and some hard places: on causing and preventing serious loss

Between some harder rocks and rockier hard places: on distortional separating and revelatory grouping

Living high and letting die reconsidered: on the costs of a morality decent life

Metaethics, better ethics: from complex semantics to simple decency.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-179) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988043-3

0-19-986826-3

0-19-802681-1

1-280-52625-4

9786610526253

1-4294-2253-X

OCLC:

191826816