Contemporary Anti-Natalism
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Contemporary Anti-Natalism

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Contemporary Anti-Natalism

About this book

Given the pain, discomfort, anxiety, heartbreak, and boredom that most humans experience in their lives, is it morally permissible to create them? Some philosophers lately have answered 'No', contending that it is wrong to create a new human life when one could avoid doing so, because it would be bad for the one created. This view is known as 'anti-natalism'. Some contributors to this volume argue that anti-natalism is true because: agents have a prima facie duty to prevent suffering; it is immoral to violate another's right not to be harmed without having consented to it; and it is a serious wrong to exploit the weakness of a poorly off being to become a biological parent. Others here argue against anti-natalism on the ground, for instance, that many of our lives are not so bad and in fact are quite good and that the logic of anti-natalism absurdly entails pro-mortalism, the view that we should kill off as many people as possible. This book explores these and related 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. Excepting one, all the chapters in this book were originally published in the South African Journal of Philosophy.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032350332
eBook ISBN
9781000786279
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. 1 Contemporary Anti-Natalism, Featuring Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been
  9. 2 Hooray for Babies
  10. 3 Are Lives Worth Creating?
  11. 4 Better to Be
  12. 5 Is Having Children Always Wrong?
  13. 6 Sick and Healthy: Benatar on the Logic of Value
  14. 7 Better No Longer to Be
  15. 8 Life Is Good
  16. 9 How Best to Prevent Future Persons from Suffering: A Reply to Benatar
  17. 10 Antinatalism, Asymmetry, and an Ethic of Prima Facie Duties
  18. 11 Furthering the Case for Anti-Natalism: Seana Shiffrin and the Limits of Permissible Harm
  19. 12 A New Argument for Anti-Natalism
  20. 13 Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism
  21. Index