CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Plackovic, Dajan |
|---|---|
| Title | Why (Even) an Anti-Natalist Should Accept a Duty to Procreate |
| Summary | Global anti-natalism is the position that all or almost all procreation is morally impermissible. Proponents of the position believe it follows from independently plausible person-affecting non-aggregating principles, including an asymmetry between the moral relevance of harms and benefits. I argue that the assumptions anti-natalists advert to equally plausibly recommend a du-ty to have children, when combined with intuitively plausible assumptions about collective du-ties to meet basic needs. I derive the duty to have children within a person-affecting non-aggregating framework and defend it against objections based on gender inequality, the duty not being legitimately enforceable and therefore being illegitimate itself, the collective duty being dischargeable by means other than procreation, and treating children as means. |
| Supervisor | Gheaus, Anca |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/plackovic_dajan.pdf |
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