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Living high and letting die : our illusion of innocence.
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 Preserv...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Living high and letting die : |b our illusion of innocence. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 1996. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a 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. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. An Introductory Summary: Morality, Methodology and Main Motivation2. 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7. The Multitude and the Single Individual8. 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 18. Further Resistance: Different Sorts of Situation and the Accumulation of Behavior3. 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 8. Beyond Conspicuousness: Dramatic Trouble and Other Potent Positive Subjective Factors9. 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 | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Life and death, Power over. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Right to die. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Generosity. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Pouvoir sur la vie et la mort. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Droit à la mort. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Morale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Générosité. | |
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