Asymmetry and Non-Identity
| Autor: | Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, Per Algander |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Asymmetry Harm 06 humanities and the arts Non-identity problem Benefit 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Population ethics 0506 political science Non identity Philosophy Negative case 060302 philosophy 050602 political science & public administration Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Popis: | In this article we distinguish two versions of the non-identity problem: one involving positive well-being and one involving negative well-being. Intuitively, there seems to be a difference between the two versions of the problem. In the negative case it is clear that one ought to cause the better-off person to exist. However, it has recently been suggested that this is not so in the positive case. We argue that such an asymmetrical treatment of the two versions should be rejected and that this is evidence against views according to which it is permissible to cause the less well-off person to exist in the positive non-identity case. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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