Adding happy people

In David Edmonds (ed.), Philosophers Take on the World. Oxford University Press UK. pp. 236-239 (2016)
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Abstract

I very briefly sketch two arguments for the claim that we have significant moral reason to ‘add happy people’ (that is, bring into existence people with lives that are well worth living), independently of any effects on those already existing.

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Theron Pummer
University of St. Andrews

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