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BETTER NEVER TO HAVE BEEN BELIEVED: BENATAR ON THE HARM OF EXISTENCE
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Brown, Campbell |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Description | In Better Never to Have Been, David Benatar argues that existence is always a harm (Benatar 2006: 18–59). His argument, in brief, is that this follows from a theory of personal good which we ought to accept because it best explains several ‘asymmetries’. I shall argue here (a) that Benatar's theory suffers from a defect which was already widely known to afflict similar theories, and (b) that the main asymmetry he discusses is better explained in a way which allows that existence is often not a harm. |
| Related Links | http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/78725/1/78725.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/6204BA80223A8CE1B98745D13DFAF65E/S0266267110000465a.pdf/div-class-title-better-never-to-have-been-believed-benatar-on-the-harm-of-existence-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 52 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 45 |
| ISSN | 02662671 |
| e-ISSN | 14740028 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266267110000465 |
| Journal | Economics and Philosophy |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2011-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Economics and Philosophy Medical Ethics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Philosophy Economics and Econometrics |
