Living high and letting die : our illusion of innocence /
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| Author / Creator: | Unger, Peter K. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
| Description: | 187 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2443092 |
Table of Contents:
- 1.. Illusions of Innocence: an Introduction
- 1.. Some Widely Available Thoughts about Many Easily Preventable Childhood Deaths
- 2.. Singer's Legacy: An Inconclusive Argument for an Importantly Correct Conclusion
- 3.. Two Approaches to Our Intuitions on Particular Cases: Preservationism and Liberationism
- 4.. An Extensive Exploration of the Liberationist Approach: Overview of the Book's Chapters
- 5.. The Liberationist Approach to an Unusual Family of Moral Puzzles
- 6.. Morality, Rationality and Truth: On the Importance of Our Basic Moral Values
- 7.. An Introductory Summary: Morality, Methodology and Main Motivation
- 2.. Living High and Letting Die: A Puzzle About Behavior Toward People in Great Need
- 1.. A Puzzle about Behavior toward People in Great Need
- 2.. An Overview of the Chapter: Distinguishing the Primary from the Secondary Basic Moral Values
- 3.. Physical Proximity, Social Proximity, Informative Directness and Experiential Impact
- 4.. The Thought of the Disastrous Further Future
- 5.. Unique Potential Saviors and Multiple Potential Saviors
- 6.. The Thought of the Governments
- 7.. The Multitude and the Single Individual
- 8.. The Continuing Mess and the Cleaned Scene
- 9.. Emergencies and Chronic Horrors
- 10.. Urgency
- 11.. Causally Focused Aid and Causally Amorphous Aid
- 12.. Satisfying Nice Semantic Conditions
- 13.. Epistemic Focus
- 14.. Money, Goods and Services
- 15.. Combinations of These Differentiating Factors
- 16.. Highly Subjective Morality and Our Actual Moral Values
- 17.. Resistance to the Puzzle's Liberationist Solution: The View That Ethics Is Highly Demanding
- 18.. Further Resistance: Different Sorts of Situation and the Accumulation of Behavior
- 3.. Living High, Stealing and Letting Die: The Main Truth of Some Related Puzzles
- 1.. A Puzzle about Taking What's Rightfully Another's
- 2.. Stealing and Just Taking
- 3.. The Account's Additional Morally Suspect Features
- 4.. Proper Property, Mere Money and Conversion
- 5.. Appropriation and the Doctrine of Double Effect
- 6.. Combination of Factors and Limited Conspicuousness
- 7.. The Influence of Conspicuousness Explained: Overcoming Our Fallacious Futility Thinking
- 8.. Beyond Conspicuousness: Dramatic Trouble and Other Potent Positive Subjective Factors
- 9.. In a Perennially Decent World: The Absence and the Presence of Futility Thinking
- 10.. The Liberationist Solution of This Puzzle and What It Means for Related Puzzles
- 4.. Between Some Rocks and Some Hard Places: on Causing and Preventing Serious Loss
- 1.. A Puzzle about Causing and Preventing Serious Loss
- 2.. The Method of Several Options
- 3.. The Deletion and Addition of Options Spells the Fall of Preservationism
- 4.. The Liberation Hypothesis and the Fanaticism Hypothesis
- 5.. Projective Separating and Projective Grouping
- 6.. Protophysics and Pseudoethics
- 7.. A Few Further Funny Factors
- 8.. Using the Method of Combining to Overcome Protophysical Thinking
- 9.. Using the Method of Combining to Overcome Projective Separating
- 10.. Putting This Puzzle's Pieces in Place: A Short but Proper Path to a Liberationist Solution
- 11.. A Longer Proper Path to that Sensible Solution
- Appendix. Two Forms of the Fanaticism Hypothesis
- 5.. Between Some Harder Rocks and Rockier Hard Places: on Distortional Separating and Revelatory Grouping
- 1.. A Strange Psychological Phenomenon: No Threshold
- 2.. Another Strange Psychological Phenomenon: Near Tie-breaker
- 3.. A Causally Amorphous Egoistic Puzzle: Introducing Dr. Strangemind
- 4.. A Causally Amorphous Altruistic Puzzle: Strangemind's Terribly Ghastly Ingenuity
- 5.. A Sensible Liberationist Solution of the Altruistic Puzzle
- 6.. A Similar Solution for the Egoistic Puzzle
- 6.. Living High and Letting Die Reconsidered: on the Costs of a Morally Decent Life
- 1.. A Pretty Demanding Dictate
- 2.. An Argument for This Dictate from the Consideration of Three Cases
- 3.. Two Principles of Ethical Integrity
- 4.. A More Principled Argument Also Yields More Highly Demanding Dictates
- 5.. A Decent Principle of Aiding: Being Appropriately Modest about Lessening Early Death
- 6.. Currently Common Lifesaving Costs, Important Efficiencies and Irrelevant Probabilities
- 7.. Special Obligations and Care for Dependents
- 8.. More Than Merely Material Costs
- 9.. Extremely Demanding Situations
- 10.. Morality, Publicity and Motivating Morally Better Behavior
- 7.. Metaethics, Better Ethics: from Complex Semantics to Simple Decency
- 1.. Diverse Judgments of the Envelope's Conduct: Two Main Considerations
- 2.. Preparation for an Introduction to a Selectively Flexible Semantics
- 3.. Rudiments of a Context-Sensitive Semantics for Morally Useful Terms
- 4.. How This Semantics Can Reconcile My Disparate Judgments of the Envelope's Behavior
- 5.. Reconciling My Other Disparate Judgments: Stressing a Conservative Secondary Value
- 6.. This Conservative Value and Barriers to Moral Progress
- 7.. How a Broad Perspective Supports the Chapter's General Approach
- 8.. From Complex Inquiry to Some Simple Decency
- Bibliography
- Index of Cases
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects