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 The thesis is an examination of the familiar objection that Consequentialism is
unreasonably demanding (hereafter the Demandingness Objection). The focus is on …

What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim
Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule …

In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives. But we also
have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own …

I defend the 'Repugnant'Conclusion that for any possible population of happy people, a
population containing a sufficient number of people with lives barely worth living would be …

In Derek Parfit's original formulation the Repugnant Conclusion is stated as follows:“For any
possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must …

Während der Klimawandel ein politisches Topthema der Gegenwart ist, gibt es bislang
keine überzeugende Klimaethik. Dabei sind entscheidende Fragen zu klären: Haben …

Derek Parfit has famously pointed out that 'total'utilitarian views, such as classical hedonistic
utilitarianism, lead to the conclusion that, to each population of quite happy persons there …

Broome and others have argued that it makes no sense, or at least that it cannot be true, to
say that it is better for a given person that he or she exist than not. That argument can be …

In Part Four of Reasons and Persons Derek Parfit searches for" Theory X," a satisfactory
account of well-being. 1 Theories of well-being cover the utilitarian part of ethics but don't …