Ethics
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- Edmund Gurney (1847 - 1888)
- Brief summary of the life of the first negative utilitarian, by Derek Greatrex.
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- Negative utilitarianism, by David Pearce
- Challenges the moral symmetry of pleasure and pain. Most philosophers jump to the conclusion that it would justify erasing the world were that the only way to eradicate suffering - however it is a little more complicated than that.