Two Dogmas of Population Ethics: MacAskill’s Existentially Unrestricted Form of Longtermism and the Value of Existence
This paper focuses on two arguments William MacAskill discusses with approval in What We Owe the Future. Both arguments support the existentially unrestricted form of longtermism that MacAskill favors, and both rely on moral principles that reflect a particular way of resolving the decades-old, Narveson-inspi...