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Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence

by Peter Unger

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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.… (more)
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Ungor argues through a large number of thought experiments (or intuition pumps), in a manner that should be convince people with a variety of ethical theories, that we ought to be giving almost all our money to charity. This book is much more accessible and much more action orientated than the average book in philosophy and I think that's too its credit. The book is a polemic in the manner of the authors other works in philosophy.

This is book on ethics that I would be most inclined to lend to a friend. ( )
  CosmicPariah | Jan 9, 2013 |
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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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