 | | | | | | Living High and Letting Die | | Item Specifics - Textbooks, Education | | | Author: | Peter K. Unger | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand | | Educational Level: | -- | | | ISBN-10: | 0195075897 | | Publication Year: | 1996 | | | ISBN-13: | 9780195075892 | | Condition: | -- | | | Product Type: | -- | | | | | | Category: | Philosophy | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Description Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
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Buy SKU: 30828961By sending a few hundred dollars to a group like UNICEF, any well-off person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. But even when knowing this, almost all of us send nothing and, among the contributors, most send precious little. What's the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it's not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. How can we best explain this lenient intuitive assessment? In this hard-hitting new book, philosopher Peter Unger argues that, all too often, our moral intuitions about cases are generated not by the basic moral values we hold, but by psychological dispositions that prevent us from reacting in accord with our deep moral commitments. Through a detailed look at how these disorienting tendencies operate, Unger reveals that, on the good morality we already accept, our fatally unhelpful behavior is monstrously wrong. Confronting us with both arresting facts and easily followed instructions for lessening the suffering of youngsters in mortal danger, Living High and Letting Die can help us live the morally decent lives that agree with our wonderfully deep, and deeply wonderful, true moral values.| Shipping Method | Shipping Timeframe | Shipping Rate | | Other (Budget) | Usually Ships in 1 to 2 business days
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| Size | | Length: | 187 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in. | | Width: | 6.8 in. | | Thickness: | 0.8 in. | | Weight: | 16.8 oz. |
| | Industry reviews | "A major work of fundamental importance both to moral philosophy and to the poor of this world."
Peter Singer
"This is a clear application of the fundamental precept of utilitarianism, the doctrine that our duty is to maximize the amount of happiness in the world and minimize the amount of unhappiness."
New Republic - Jeffrey Rosen (10/14/1996)
"...[T]he book's discussion of how much the well-off should sacrifice for the world's most needy stands as the state-of-the-art treatment of the subject."
Times Literary Supplement - Brad Hooker (01/31/1997)
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