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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Benatar, David. Better never to have been. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006299658 (OCoLC)70881677 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Benatar |
ISBN: | 9780191516313 0191516317 0199296421 9780199296422 9780191712005 0191712000 9781429471145 142947114X |
OCLC Number: | 140072555 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Why coming into existence is always a harm -- How bad is coming into existence? -- Having children : the anti-natal view -- Abortion : the 'pro-death' view -- Population and extinction. |
Responsibility: | David Benatar. |
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This isn't a new book, but it is generating increasing discussion in university departments and elsewhere: hence this review... If you enjoy an ethical challenge, then read this book. Malcolm Torry, Triple Helix For those who admire really careful and imaginative argumentation, and are interested in either issues of life and death, or the foundations of morality, it's a must read Harry Brighouse, Out of the Crooked Timber Benatar's discussion is clear and intelligent. Yujin Nagasawa MIND [this] volume has the great merit of raising a very basic issue (the intrinsic value of human existence), which is usually assumed but rarely discussed in philosophical terms. Thus, it may be hoped that this book will encourage a thoughtful and rich exchange of ideas on such a fundamental question. Roberto Andorno, Medical Health Care and Philosophy Journal Read more...

