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The Badness of Dying Early

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dc.contributor.authorBroome, John
dc.contributor.editorGamlund, Espen
dc.contributor.editorSolberg, Carl Tollef
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-31T03:32:23Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2022-01-16T07:21:41Z
dc.description.abstractA common intuition suggests that it is less bad for an infant to die than for a young adult to die. This is puzzling because the infant has more life ahead of her than a young adult, so it seems she loses more when she dies. Jeff McMahan (2002, 165–174) supports the common intuition and defends it by means of what he calls the “Time-Relative Interest Account” of the badness of death. I shall describe two possible interpretations of the Time-Relative Interest Account and raise a problem for each. Then I shall offer an alternative defense of the common intuition.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9780190921446en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/287927
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofSaving People from the Harm of Deathen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rights© Oxford University Press 2019en_AU
dc.subjectcritical levelen_AU
dc.subjectgradual creationen_AU
dc.subjectneutral levelen_AU
dc.subjectrelative valueen_AU
dc.subjectvalue of lifeen_AU
dc.titleThe Badness of Dying Earlyen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage115en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationUnited States
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage105en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBroome, John, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBroome, John, u1820493en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor500300 - Philosophyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1007931xPUB330en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780190921415.003.0008en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://academic.oup.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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