Contemporary Anti-Natalism

Herausgeber: Metz, Thaddeus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores issues concerning the evaluative question of how to judge the worthwhileness of lives and the normative question of what basic duties entail for the creation of new lives while presenting counter arguments to anti-natalism. Excepting one, all chapters were originally published in South African Journal of Philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781032350332
• ISBN-10: 1032350334
• Artikelnr.: 64673478

Autorenporträt

Thaddeus Metz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa is particularly known for his work on philosophical approaches to the meaning of life. His books on the topic include: Meaning in Life; God, Soul and the Meaning of Life; and What Makes a Life Meaningful? A Debate (with Joshua Seachris, Routledge 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contemporary Anti-Natalism, Featuring Benatar's Better Never to Have
Been 2. Hooray for Babies 3. Are Lives Worth Creating? 4. Better to Be 5.
Is Having Children Always Wrong? 6. Sick and Healthy: Benatar on the Logic
of Value 7. Better No Longer to Be 8. Life Is Good 9. How Best to Prevent
Future Persons from Suffering: A Reply to Benatar 10. Antinatalism,
Asymmetry, and an Ethic of Prima Facie Duties 11. Furthering the Case for
Anti- Natalism: Seana Shiffrin and the Limits of Permissible Harm 12. A New
Argument for Anti- Natalism 13. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence
of Anti- Natalism