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What should we agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?
- Abstract:
- 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)
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S095382082100011X
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Utilitas More from this journal
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 379 - 383
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-13
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1741-6183
- ISSN:
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0953-8208
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English
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1173534
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- Zuber et al.
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- 2021
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- ©2021 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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