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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc 2021-12, Vol.33 (4), p.379-383
Hauptverfasser:	Zuber, Stéphane, Venkatesh, Nikhil, Tännsjö, Torbjörn, Tarsney, Christian, Stefánsson, H. Orri, Steele, Katie, Spears, Dean, Sebo, Jeff, Pivato, Marcus, Ord, Toby, Ng, Yew-Kwang, Masny, Michal, MacAskill, William, Lawson, Nicholas, Kuruc, Kevin, Hutchinson, Michelle, Gustafsson, Johan E., Greaves, Hilary, Forsberg, Lisa, Fleurbaey, Marc, Coffey, Diane, Cato, Susumu, Castro, Clinton, Campbell, Tim, Budolfson, Mark, Broome, John, Berger, Alexander, Beckstead, Nick, Asheim, Geir B.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Decision making Demography Economics and Finance Ethics filosofi Filosofi, etik och religion Humanities and Social Sciences Philosophy Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Population Quality of life Utilitarianism Values
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Zusammenfassung:	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 existence, if other things are equal, would be better, even though its members have lives that are barely worth living. (Parfit 1984: 388)
ISSN:	0953-8208 1741-6183 1741-6183
DOI:	10.1017/S095382082100011X