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Author Unger, Peter K.

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

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  170 U57L    Check Shelf
Description xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and indexes.
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.
Subject Life and death, Power over.
Ethics.
Generosity.
Indexed Term Ethics
ISBN 0195075897 cloth alkaline paper
9780195075892 cloth alkaline paper
0195108590 paperback alkaline paper
9780195108590 paperback alkaline paper
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