The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics  

Oleh:

Blackorby, Charles ; Bossert, Walter ; Donaldson, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Politics, Philosophy & Economics vol. 2 no. 3 (Okt. 2003), page 342–381.
Topik: population ethics; axiomatic methodology
Fulltext: 342PPE23.pdf (274.36KB)

Isi artikel

This article examines several families of population principles in the light of a set of axioms. In addition to the critical-level utilitarian, number-sensitive critical-level utilitarian, and number-dampened utilitarian families and their generalized counterparts, we consider the restricted number-dampened family and introduce two new ones: the restricted critical-level and restricted number-dependent critical-level families. Subsets of the restricted families have non-negative critical levels, avoid the ‘repugnant conclusion’ and satisfy the axiom priority for lives worth living, but violate an important independence condition.

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