The mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons...
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ISBN 978-1-4985-1651-8). Temkin, Larry S. (1987). "Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox". Philosophy and Public Affairs. 16 (2): 138–187. Matthews, Dylan...
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monster has been invoked in debates about population. Derek Parfit's mere addition paradox suggests that additional humans would add to total happiness, even...
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The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, refers to the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure. For the hedonist...
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Mere addition paradox: (Parfit's paradox) Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population? Moore's paradox:...
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individual together. The main problem for total utilitarianism is the "mere addition paradox", which argues that a likely outcome of following total utilitarianism...
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with multiple (possibly multidimensional) outcomes. The St. Petersburg paradox was first proposed by Nicholas Bernoulli in 1713 and solved by Daniel Bernoulli...
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Normative Population Theory: A Person Affecting Solution to Parfit's Mere Addition Paradox" (PDF). Philosophical Studies. 81 (2–3): 263–282. doi:10.1007/bf00372786...
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the non-identity problem. Another problem Parfit looks at is the mere addition paradox, which supposedly shows that it is better to have a lot of people...
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pleasures of the intellect ... a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation." However, he accepts that this is usually because the intellectual...
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paradox is a paradox in which an arbitrary claim F is proved from the mere existence of a sentence C that says of itself "If C, then F". The paradox requires...
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predecessors". "Even though Hume wrote with an anti-Whig animus, it is, paradoxically, correct to regard the History as an establishment work, one which implicitly...
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form of the repugnant conclusion anyway. Mere addition paradox Natalism Kavka, Gregory (1982). "The Paradox of Future Individuals" (PDF). Philosophy and...
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unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a better or a happier...
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aid, and humane society). "Where humanitarian efforts seek a positive addition to the happiness of sentient beings, it is to make the unhappy happy rather...
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Temkin argues, in addition to considerations of priority. Beginning with his groundbreaking ‘Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox,’ and culminating...
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self-interested reasons support adoption of the moral point of view, such as "the paradox of hedonism", which counsels that happiness is best found by not looking...
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A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...
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doing good". The term enlightened self-interest has been criticized as a mere ideological or semantic device of neoclassical economic theory to justify...
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