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The non-identity problem and the ethics of future people

Summary: David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. Our actions sometimes have an effect not only on the quality of life that people will enjoy in the future, but on which particular people will exist in the future to enjoy it. In cases where this is so, the combination of certain assumptions that most people seem to accept can yield conclusions that most people seem to reject. Thenon-identity problem has important implications both for ethical theory and for a number of topics in applied ethics, including controversia.

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ISBN: 019150548X
ISBN: 9780191505485
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 293 pages)
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Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	6.1.3.2 Creation Cases6.1.3.3 Replacement Cases; 6.2 Following a Suboptimal Rule; 6.3 Violating a Scope-restricted Optimizing Principle; 6.4 Producing an Intrinsically Bad Result; 6.5 Wronging a Group; 6.6 Acting from a Defective Character; 7 Accepting the Conclusion; 7.1 Famine Relief Cases; 7.2 Rescue Cases; 7.3 The Transitivity Argument; 7.4 Different Species Cases; 7.5 The Three Distinctions Revisited; 7.6 Implications; 7.7 The Three Requirements Revisited; 7.7.1 The Independence Requirement; 7.7.2 The Robustness Requirement; 7.7.3 The Modesty Requirement.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.