Dismantling the Asymmetry Argument
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F19%3AA20023LM" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/19:A20023LM - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9638-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10790-018-9638-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dismantling the Asymmetry Argument
Original language description
I examine anew David Benatarʼs Betternes Thesis (BT), according to which it would have been better never to come into existence. Arguing that he has failed to provide BT with a coherent meaning, I propose to replace BT with the Regret Thesis (RT), according to which it would be rational to be sorry for oneself because of one's having come into existence. Explaining subsequently Benatar's basic asymmetry between harms and benefits, I find dubious, unlike other critics, not the asymmetry itself but rather Benatar's transition from the asymmetry to BT. The transition remains dubious even if (the unclear) BT is replaced with (the relatively clear) RT. I conclude by reminding why RT is probably false and so does not follow from the asymmetry. I cannot say this about BT as it escapes my comprehension.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Journal of Value Inquiry
ISSN
0022-5363
e-ISSN
1573-0492
Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
75-90
UT code for WoS article
000460084100005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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