Living High and Letting Die : Our Illusion of Innocence, Paperback by Unger, ...

Description: Living High and Letting Die : Our Illusion of Innocence, Paperback by Unger, Peter K., ISBN 0195108590, ISBN-13 9780195108590, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the
moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. What is the source of this lenient assessment? In this contentious new book, one of our leading philosophers argues that our intuitions about
ethical cases are generated not by basic moral values, but by certain distracting psychological dispositions that all too often prevent us from reacting in accord with our commitments. Through a detailed look at how these tendencies operate, Unger shows that, on the good morality that we already
accept, the fatally unhelpful behavior is monstrously wrong. By uncovering the eminently sensible ethics that weve already embraced fully, and by confronting us with empirical facts and with easily followed instructions for lessening serious suffering appropriately and effectively, Ungers book
points the way to a compassionate new moral philosophy.

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