The Least Suffering for the Smallest Number

 

            Research on Basic Ethical Priorities by Socrethics

 

 

 

             Biological and Sociocultural Evolution

 

Utility and Pain in Biology

 

How could pain increase in the course of biological evolution?

Utility and Suffering in Culture

 

Does suffering decrease with cultural evolution?

On the Perception of Risk and Benefit

Does technology improve the benefit/risk ratio?

 

 

 

Philosophy of Economics and Law

 

Short History of Welfare Economics

 

Does welfare economics contribute to happiness?

Negative Utilitarianism and Justice

 

Should the maximum sufferers get lexical priority?

The Principles of Non-Violence and Disengagement

 

Is non-violence a rational principle?

Negative Utilitarian Priorities

 

What’s wrong about the Copenhagen Consensus?

 

 

            Population Ethics

 

Hostility and the Minimization of Suffering

 

Does the minimization of suffering lead to a hostile philosophy?

On the Buddhist Truths and the Paradoxes in Population Ethics

 

How many people should there be?

The Procreation of Risk

Is it morally defensible to have children?

 

 

 

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