Essays about: "Jepser Söderstedt"

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  1. 1. THE PROCREATION ASYMMETRY : The Existence-requirement Strategy and some Concerns on Incompatibility

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Jepser Söderstedt; [2020]
    Keywords : The procreation asymmetry; asymmetry; variabilism; harming; benefitting; conditional reasons; happiness;

    Abstract : According to the procreation asymmetry there is no moral reason to create a new and foreseeably happy person just because this person will be happy, but there is however a moral reason against creating a new and foreseeably unhappy person just because this person will be unhappy. A common way to defend this conjunction of claims is by employing a so-called existence-requirement, according to which the happiness of a given person p in a world w depends on it being possible to understand p as an existing person in w. READ MORE