Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 6 HT08
| Event Name | Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 6 HT08 |
| Start Date | 18th Feb 2008 4:30pm |
| End Date | 18th Feb 2008 6:30pm |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Description | Campbell Brown (Edinburgh), ‘How to Live a Life worth Living’ to be held in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton Street, Oxford - Seminars in Moral Philosophy webpage Abstract: Although ubiquitous in population ethics, the notion of a "life worth living" resists easy analysis. Intuitively, one wants to say that a life is worth living just in case living it is better than living no life at all. On reflection, though, this seems mysterious. To live no life at all is simply not to exist, to be nothing. But then it seems we have an instance of the "better than" relation in which one of the relata is absent; we're trying to compare something, a life, with nothing. This paper proposes an analysis of lives worth living that avoids such mysterious comparisons |
