Living High and Letting DiePeter Unger
Living High and Letting Die
by Peter Unger · first published 1996
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…(technical questions about) personal identity: "Reasons and persons", by Derek Parfit. Quite heavy going, but Parfit's an outstandingly clear thinker and there are some very good ideas here. Applied ethics: "Living high and letting die", by Peter Unger. Argues for the counterintuitive conclusion that basically all of us in the affluent West have an obligation to do (not just somewhat more but) vastly more for the least well-off. Philosophy…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗This. There's a great book called Living High and Letting Die by Peter Unger which relates to this subject. Essentially, the argument is we here in the first world have a moral obligation to continue onward and upward as long as we benefit those in the third world.…
on “We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It” ↗…views can be summed up as parochialism, and they are usually the reason that we allow evil to be perpetrated against the innocent. It's also the reason we allow the poor of the world to starve (c.f. Living High and Letting Die, Peter Unger) which I don't feel can be construed as bullying. A similar example is the behavior of the allies immediately after the second world war, who apparently did little to acknowledge the Holocaust.…
on “The Bully’s Pulpit (2015)” ↗