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Weighing lives

Title
Weighing lives / John Broome.
Author
Broome, John.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.

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Description
ix, 278 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Values
  • Life and death, Power over
  • Bewertung
  • Leben
  • Wert
  • Wirtschaftsethik
  • Ethik
Note
  • Originally published: 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-271) and index.
Contents
Weighing lives -- Some technical matters -- Right and good -- Features of goodness -- Quantities of lifetime wellbeing -- Quantities of temporal wellbeing -- Separability of times -- Separability of lives -- Same-number aggregation -- The neutral level for existence -- Nonstandard betterness -- Indeterminate betterness -- Separability of people -- The standardized total principle -- Same-lifetime aggregation -- A life worth living -- The value of a life -- The theory of weighing lives.
ISBN
  • 0199297703
  • 9780199297702
OCLC
  • ocm63395826
  • 63395826
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries