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Better Never to Have Been Believed: Benatar on the Harm of Existence
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Brown, Campbell |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Starting Page | 45 |
| Ending Page | 52 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0266267110000465 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/12473197/BROWN_C_Better_never_to_have_been_believed_Benatar_on_the_harm_of_existence.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267110000465 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
