The Moral Evaluation of Past Tragedies: A New Puzzle
The past is full of terrible tragedies, including slavery, World War I, and the Holocaust. Morality would clearly appear to support the preference that the victims of those calamities would have lived free and peaceful lives. And yet, a puzzle or even a paradox appears to be lurking here. Moral eval...
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2020
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Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2020, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 188-201 |
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philosophy of history
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