Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'. This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics.
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strong sadistic conclusion, overpopulation choice, repugnant conclusion problem, perfectly equal population, low positive welfare, sorites relationship, fixed additivity, repugnant conclusion repugnant, axiological paradoxes, generalized utilitarianism, greatest total sum, normative population theory, larger imaginable population whose existence, challenge for moral theory, procreation obligation, possible future individuals, lexical view, misery principle, wellbeing levels, potato lives, betterness relation, utility derivation, population ethics, moral alphabet, infinite payoff Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Second Paradox, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Derek Parfit, Necessary-person-affecting Principle, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Problem of Suffering, Set of Solutions, Dominance Addition Condition, Drab Eternity, Narveson's Slogan, Necessary-person Betterness Claim, Stuart Rachels, Contingent Future Persons, Multiplying Program, Nils Holtug, Outcome Utilitarianism, Petersburg Paradox, Philosophical Papers, Harvard University Press, Normative Egalitarian Dominance Condition, Quality Condition, The Actual-person-affecting Principle New!
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Analytic philosophers are often accused of not taking existential questions seriously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strong sadistic conclusion, overpopulation choice, repugnant conclusion problem, perfectly equal population, low positive welfare, sorites relationship, fixed additivity, repugnant conclusion repugnant, axiological paradoxes, generalized utilitarianism, greatest total sum, normative population theory, larger imaginable population whose existence, challenge for moral theory, procreation obligation, possible future individuals, lexical view, misery principle, wellbeing levels, potato lives, betterness relation, utility derivation, population ethics, moral alphabet, infinite payoff Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oxford University Press, Second Paradox, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Derek Parfit, Necessary-person-affecting Principle, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Problem of Suffering, Set of Solutions, Dominance Addition Condition, Drab Eternity, Narveson's Slogan, Necessary-person Betterness Claim, Stuart Rachels, Contingent Future Persons, Multiplying Program, Nils Holtug, Outcome Utilitarianism, Petersburg Paradox, Philosophical Papers, Harvard University Press, Normative Egalitarian Dominance Condition, Quality Condition, The Actual-person-affecting Principle New!
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- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls on 5 pages
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- The Demands of Consequentialism by Tim Mulgan on page 169, and Back Matter
- Imperceptible Harms and Benefits (Library Of Ethics And Applied Philosophy Volume 8) by Michael J. Almeida in Front Matter, and page 90
- Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen in Back Matter
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