Is Coming into Existence Always a Harm? Qoheleth in Dialogue with David Benatar
Contemporary philosopher David Benatar has advanced the self-evidently controversial claim that "coming into existence is always a harm." Benatar's argument turns on the basic asymmetry between pleasure and pain, an asymmetry he seeks to explain by the principle that those who never e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2019, Volume: 112, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-54 |
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Bible. Kohelet 6,1-6
/ Bible. Kohelet 4,1-3
/ Benatar, David 1966-, Better never to have been
/ Antinatalismus
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
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Bible and philosophy
B Qoheleth B value of existence B Ecclesiastes B David Benatar |
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