Resources and the acceptability of the Repugnant Conclusion

IF 0.8 4区 哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA Pub Date : 2020-02-26 DOI:10.1387/THEORIA.20121
Stephen J. Schmidt
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Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion argues, against intuition, that for any world A, another world Z with higher population and minimal well-being is better. That intuition is incorrect because the argument has not considered resources that support well-being. Z must have many more resources supporting well-being than A does. Z is repugnant because it spreads those resources among too many people; another world with Z’s resources and fewer people, if available, would be far superior. But Z is still better than A; it is worth accepting its very large population to get the resources needed to support their well-being.
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资源和反对结论的可接受性
帕菲特的《令人反感的结论》反对直觉,认为对于任何世界A,另一个拥有更多人口和最低福利的世界Z更好。这种直觉是不正确的,因为该论点没有考虑到支持幸福的资源。Z肯定比A拥有更多支持幸福的资源。Z令人反感,因为它将这些资源分散给太多人;另一个拥有Z的资源和更少人口的世界,如果有的话,将会优越得多。但Z仍然比A好;它值得接受其庞大的人口,以获得支持其福祉所需的资源。
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期刊介绍: THEORIA is open to original and relevant papers from any of the fields covered by the journal, i.e. logic and philosophy of logic, history and philosophy of mathematics, history and philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind and cognition. Articles in English and Spanish are preferred, but the journal also accepts articles written in any of the languages of the Iberian Peninsula.
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