Human Extinction and Moral Worthwhileness
Abstract In this article I make two main critiques of Kaczmarek and Beard's article ‘Human Extinction and Our Obligations to the Past’. First, I argue that there is an ambiguity in what it means to realise the benefits of a sacrifice and that this ambiguity affects the persuasiveness of the authors’ arguments and responses to various objections to their view. Second, I argue that their core argument against human extinction depends on an unsupported assumption about the existence and importance of existential benefits.
1962 ◽
Vol 14
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pp. 133-148
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1961 ◽
Vol 2
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pp. 73-105
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1979 ◽
Vol 46
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pp. 96-101
1973 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 132-133
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1977 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 638-639