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高居其位而任人死去

Living High and Letting Die

Peter Unger · 初版 1996 年

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  • ……关于个人同一性的(技术性问题):Derek Parfit 的《Reasons and Persons》。相当艰涩难啃,但 Parfit 是一位思维极其清晰的思想家,书中提出了一些非常棒的见解。应用伦理学:Peter Unger 的《Living High and Letting Die》。论证了一个反直觉的结论:富裕西方世界的基本上所有人,都有义务为底层境遇最差的人做(不仅仅是多做一点点,而是)多得多的事情。哲学……

    …(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…

  • 确实。Peter Unger 写过一本很棒的书叫《Living High and Letting Die》,与这个话题相关。从根本上讲,他的论点是,只要能让第三世界的人受益,我们这些第一世界的人就有道德义务去不断追求更高的成就……

    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.…

  • ……这种观点可以归结为狭隘主义,正是它们常常导致我们纵容对无辜者的恶行。这也是我们任由世界上穷人挨饿的原因(参见 Peter Unger 的《Living High and Letting Die》),我觉得这不能被理解为霸凌。一个类似的例子是二战刚刚结束后盟军的表现,他们显然几乎没有对大屠杀给予什么承认……

    …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.…

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