太容易,太好,太迟?

IF 1.4 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY Philosophers' Imprint Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI:10.3998/phimp.1336
A. Dietz
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似乎,美好生活的一个重要组成部分是做一些对世界有贡献或积极影响的工作。然而,在本文中,我探讨了贡献悲观主义,认为人们并不总是有足够的机会做出贡献。我区分了三种有趣的、不同的、至少在最初看似合理的理由来解释为什么这种观点可能是正确的:以口号的形式,事情可能变得太容易了,它们可能变得太好了,或者我们可能太迟了。现在,对这些问题的一种回应可能是故意试图消除它们。然而,我认为这种解决方案在直觉上是错误的,并认为解释这一点支持对贡献价值的整体方法。最后,我认为,如果贡献悲观主义是正确的,它可以解释一些关于人口伦理问题的普遍直觉,并暗示我们应该在多大程度上优先考虑解决人类灭绝的风险。
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Too Easy, Too Good, Too Late?
Plausibly, one important part of a good life is doing work that makes a contribution, or a positive difference to the world. In this paper, however, I explore contribution pessimism, the view that people will not always have adequate opportunities for making contributions. I distinguish between three interestingly different and at least initially plausible reasons why this view might be true: in slogan form, things might become too easy, they might become too good, or we might be too late. Now, one response to these problems might be to deliberately attempt to undo them. However, I claim that this solution is intuitively misguided, and argue that explaining this supports a holistic approach to the value of contributions. Finally, I argue that if contribution pessimism is correct, it could provide an explanation of some widely held intuitions about issues in population ethics, with implications about the practical issue of how much priority we should give to addressing risks of human extinction.
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