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1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrations
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and indexes.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996