What should we agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?
The Repugnant Conclusion is an implication of some approaches to population ethics. It states, in Derek Parfit's original formulation, For any possible population of at least ten billion people, all with a very high quality of life, there must be some much larger imaginable population whose exi...
Main Authors: | Zuber, S, Venkatesh, N, Tännsjö, T, Tarsney, C, Stefánsson, HO, Steele, K, Spears, D, Sebo, J, Pivato, M, Ord, T, Ng, YK, Masny, M, Macaskill, W, Lawson, N, Kuruc, K, Hutchinson, M, Gustafsson, JE, Greaves, H, Forsberg, L, Fleurbaey, M, Coffey, D, Cato, S, Castro, C, Campbell, T, Budolfson, M, Broome, J, Berger, A, Beckstead, N, Asheim, GB |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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