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 …
Child Versus Childmaker investigates a'person-affecting'approach to ethical choice. A form of consequentialism, this approach is intended to capture the idea that agents ought both do …
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 …
E Carlson - Economics & Philosophy, 1998 - cambridge.org
A principal aim of the branch of ethics called 'population theory'or 'population ethics' is to find a plausible welfarist axiology, capable of comparing total outcomes with respect to value …
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 …
JM Nebel - Ethics and existence: The legacy of Derek Parfit, 2022 - books.google.com
Totalism without repugnance Page 211 8 Totalism without Repugnance Jacob M. Nebel 8.1 Introduction According to Totalism: One distribution of well-being is better than another just in …
Im Zentrum der Studie steht das Problem personaler Identität. Die Diskussion insbesondere der angelsächsischen Gegenwartsphilosophie wird durch reduktionistische Ansätze …
S Rachels - The repugnant conclusion: essays on population ethics, 2004 - Springer
Repugnance or intransitivity: a repugnant but forced choice Page 165 163 STUART RACHELS REPUGNANCE OR INTRANSITIVITY: A REPUGNANT BUT FORCED CHOICE A set of …