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...

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...

monster has been invoked in debates about population. Derek Parfit's mere addition paradox suggests that additional humans would add to total happiness, even...

individual together. The main problem for total utilitarianism is the "mere addition paradox", which argues that a likely outcome of following total utilitarianism...

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...

The paradox of hedonism, also called the pleasure paradox, refers to the practical difficulties encountered in the pursuit of pleasure. For the hedonist...

Mere addition paradox: (Parfit's paradox) Is a large population living a barely tolerable life better than a small, happy population? Moore's paradox:...

with multiple (possibly multidimensional) outcomes. The St. Petersburg paradox was first proposed by Nicholas Bernoulli in 1713 and solved by Daniel Bernoulli...

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...

Utilitarian social choice rule Problems Demandingness objection Mere addition paradox Paradox of hedonism Replaceability argument Utility monster Works An...

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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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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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...

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...

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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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...

Temkin argues, in addition to considerations of priority. Beginning with his groundbreaking ‘Intransitivity and the Mere Addition Paradox,’ and culminating...

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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...

doing good". The term enlightened self-interest has been criticized as a mere ideological or semantic device of neoclassical economic theory to justify...

Utilitarian social choice rule Problems Demandingness objection Mere addition paradox Paradox of hedonism Replaceability argument Utility monster Works An...

Utilitarian social choice rule Problems Demandingness objection Mere addition paradox Paradox of hedonism Replaceability argument Utility monster Works An...

good than hard asymmetric views. Population ethics Antinatalism Mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) Natalism Nonidentity problem...

Utilitarian social choice rule Problems Demandingness objection Mere addition paradox Paradox of hedonism Replaceability argument Utility monster Works An...

Utilitarian social choice rule Problems Demandingness objection Mere addition paradox Paradox of hedonism Replaceability argument Utility monster Works An...