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Common terms and phrasesaccording Addition Paradox agents AHPP Alpha alternative argue argument Arrhenius average avoid the Repugnant axiological barely worth living better worse billion Blackorby bound child claim comparisons consequentialism consequentialist consider counterintuitive critical level Derek Parfit discussion Donaldson equal evaluations example fact future happy Heyd Holtug individuals inequality intransitivity intuitions involves least level of wellbeing lexical level live lives misery moral theory muzak and potatoes negative negative utilitarian neutral level normal privileged normative objection Omega outcome outweighed overpopulation choice overpopulation problem Pareto principle Pascal's Wager permissible Person-affecting Principle person-based Petersburg Paradox plausible pleasure population ethics Population Paradox positive possible prefer Rachels Reasons and Persons reject relevant Repugnant Conclusion Ryberg strong sadistic conclusion Stuart Rachels suffering supervenient Suppose Tännsjö Temkin things Torbjörn Tännsjö total utility utilitarianism utility distribution utility level Utility Monster welfare well-being wide person-affecting worse-off worth not living wrong Popular passagesPage 2 - ... population enjoy on the whole positive happiness, we ought to weigh the amount of happiness gained by the extra number against the amount lost by the remainder. So that, strictly conceived, the point up to which, on utilitarian principles, population ought to be encouraged to increase, is not that at which average happiness is the greatest possible - as appears to be often assumed by political economists of the school of Malthus - but that at which the product formed by multiplying the number... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarPopulation EthicsCharles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson Remarks on Population EthicsTomoichi Shinotsuka In Defence of RepugnanceMichael Huemer - 2008 - Mind On the Repugnance of the Repugnant ConclusionTHOMAS SOBIRK PETERSEN - 2006 - Theoria References from web pagesThe Repugnant Conclusion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) On the Repugnance of the Repugnant Conclusion The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics: eds Jesper ... RESOLVING THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION Gustaf Arrhenius Deff - Search Service - Research database Jesper Home Engversion Demography Libri - Webster.it The Repugnant Conclusion | ISBN: 9781402024726 (140202472X) | Naše ... book Kluwer Academic Publishers Holland The Repugnant Conclusion ... Bibliographic information
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