Mere addition and the separateness of persons

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Mere addition and the separateness of persons

How can we resist the repugnant conclusion? James Griffin has suggested that part way through the sequence we may reach a world—let us call it “J”— in which the lives are lexically superior to those that follow. If it would be better to live a single life in J than through any number of lives in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rendall, Matthew
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of Philosophy 2015
Subjects:	Mere addition paradox; repugnant conclusion; Population ethics; Utilitarianism; Aggregation; Intransitivity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28446/

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