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Weighing Lives
Taschenbuch von John Broome
Sprache: Englisch

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We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. We have to choose between the convenience to ourselves of road and air travel, and the lives of the future people who will be killed by the global warming we cause. We make choices that affect how many lives there will be in the future: as individuals we choose how many children to have, and societies choose tax policies that influence people's choices about having children. How should we weigh lives? John Broome develops a theoretical basis for answering this practical question. Using some of the precise methods of economic theory (accessible without mathematical expertise), Broome's conclusions will be highly sigificant for political theorists and economists as well as for philosophers, and anyone concerned with the value of life.
We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. We have to choose between the convenience to ourselves of road and air travel, and the lives of the future people who will be killed by the global warming we cause. We make choices that affect how many lives there will be in the future: as individuals we choose how many children to have, and societies choose tax policies that influence people's choices about having children. How should we weigh lives? John Broome develops a theoretical basis for answering this practical question. Using some of the precise methods of economic theory (accessible without mathematical expertise), Broome's conclusions will be highly sigificant for political theorists and economists as well as for philosophers, and anyone concerned with the value of life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Weighing lives

  • 2: Some technical matters

  • 3: Right and good

  • 4: Features of Goodness

  • 5: Quantities of lifetime wellbeing

  • 6: Quantities of temporal wellbeing

  • 7: Separability of times

  • 8: Separability of lives

  • 9: Same-number aggregation

  • 10: The neutral level for existence

  • 11: Nonstandard betterness

  • 12: Indeterminate betterness

  • 13: Separability of people

  • 14: The standardized total principle

  • 15: Same-lifetime aggregation

  • 16: A life worth living

  • 17: The value of a life

  • 18: The theory of weighing lives

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199297702
ISBN-10: 0199297703
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Broome, John
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: John Broome
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2006
Gewicht: 0,447 kg
Artikel-ID: 108629625
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Weighing lives

  • 2: Some technical matters

  • 3: Right and good

  • 4: Features of Goodness

  • 5: Quantities of lifetime wellbeing

  • 6: Quantities of temporal wellbeing

  • 7: Separability of times

  • 8: Separability of lives

  • 9: Same-number aggregation

  • 10: The neutral level for existence

  • 11: Nonstandard betterness

  • 12: Indeterminate betterness

  • 13: Separability of people

  • 14: The standardized total principle

  • 15: Same-lifetime aggregation

  • 16: A life worth living

  • 17: The value of a life

  • 18: The theory of weighing lives

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199297702
ISBN-10: 0199297703
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Broome, John
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: John Broome
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2006
Gewicht: 0,447 kg
Artikel-ID: 108629625
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