… more simply: we find the repugnant conclusion repugnant because the move from A to Z …
is exactly what Parfit suggests. He claims (ibid.) that the repugnance of the conclusion is due to …

… Economics and Philosophy 5 [1989]: 235-53) proves that the Repugnant Conclusion follows
if we accept Parfit's mere addition principle (an additional happy life is to be preferred) and …

… However, it is Parfit who has brought the conclusion to recent … of the conclusion and by
showing how difficult it is to avoid it (Parfit 1984). Parfit was led to the Repugnant Conclusion by …

… The most famous of these is Parfit's continuum argument for the Repugnant Conclusion (Parfit
1984). 1.2 According to that argument, we can create a continuum of outcomes varying …

… Total utilitarianism implies Parfit's repugnant conclusion. For any world (A) containing ten …
life in Parfit's Z is better than he suggests, and thus that his conclusion is not repugnant. This …

… that many people have given for various repugnant conclusions, most assume precision. …
Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion. This argument's main premise claims that …

… Parfit has called ‘the repugnant conclusion’. There are several strategies aimed at debunking
the intuition that this implication is repugnant… repugnant conclusion must appear repugnant …

… We can think of Parfit's thought experiments as challenging holistic intuitions–such as the
value of … Parfit's thought experiments do not concern the concept of civilization directly, but they …

… Repugnant Conclusion, reducing the quality of a life to its wellbeing level would have unwelcome
consequences. Parfit … In Parfits view, the Repugnant Conclusion is truly repugnant only …

… Finally, I illustrate the difference between Parfit's … to the problem posed by the Repugnant
Conclusion in population ethics. I … Parfit on the occasion of his award of the 2014 Schock Prize. …