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390Better never to have been believed: Benatar on the harm of existenceEconomics and Philosophy 27 (1): 45-52. 2011.In Better Never to Have Been, David Benatar argues that existence is always a harm. His argument, in brief, is that this follows from a theory of personal good which we ought to accept because it best explains several ‘asymmetries’. I shall argue here that Benatar's theory suffers from a defect which was already widely known to afflict similar theories, and that the main asymmetry he discusses is better explained in a way which allows that existence is often not a harm.
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodAssistant Professor
London, London, City of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |