{"product_id":"living-high-and-letting-die-peter-unger-9780195108590","title":"Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eprevent\u003c\/em\u003e us from reacting in \u003cem\u003eaccord\u003c\/em\u003e with our commitments. Through a detailed look at how these tendencies operate, Unger shows that, on the good morality that we \u003cem\u003ealready\u003c\/em\u003e accept, the fatally unhelpful behavior is \u003cem\u003emonstrously\u003c\/em\u003e wrong. By uncovering the eminently sensible ethics that we've already embraced fully, and by confronting us with empirical facts and with easily followed instructions for lessening serious suffering appropriately and effectively, Unger's book points the way to a compassionate new moral philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Unger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195108590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195108590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.08w x 0.53d","brand":"Peter Unger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321193656575,"sku":"9780195108590","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65ce6883-1ed4-4340-a20f-b266496650c2.jpg?v=1696329605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-high-and-letting-die-peter-unger-9780195108590","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}