{"id":1593,"date":"2023-03-02T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/anti-natalism-article-of-mine-now-in-print-and-online\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:13:30","slug":"anti-natalism-article-of-mine-now-in-print-and-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/anti-natalism-article-of-mine-now-in-print-and-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Natalism Article of Mine Now in Print and Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Vallicella, William F.. &quot;Is the Quality of Life Objectively Evaluable on Naturalism?&quot; <em>Perichoresis<\/em>, vol.21, no.1, 2023, pp.70-83. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2478\/perc-2023-0005<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"PTSerifCaption-Regular\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Abstract<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"mb-4\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This article examines one of the sources of David Benatar\u2019s anti-natalism. This is the view that \u2018all procreation is [morally] wrong.\u2019 (Benatar and Wasserman, 2015:12) One of its sources is the claim that each of our lives is objectively bad, hence bad whether we think so or not. The question I will pose is whether the constraints of metaphysical naturalism allow for an objective devaluation of human life sufficiently negative to justify anti-natalism. My thesis is that metaphysical naturalism does not have the resources to support such a negative evaluation. Metaphysical naturalism is the view that causal reality is exhausted by nature, the space-time system and its contents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The gist of my argument is that the ideal standards relative to which our lives are supposed to be axiologically substandard cannot be merely subjective expressions of our desires and aversions; they must be (i) objectively binding standards that are (ii) objectively possible in the sense of concretely realizable. The realizability condition, however, cannot be satisfied on metaphysical naturalism; ergo, failure to meet these ideal standards cannot show that our lives are objectively bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4 class=\"PTSerifCaption-Regular\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Keywords<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">anti-natalism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">procreation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">naturalism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">metaphysical naturalism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">human life<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The entire issue is available <a href=\"https:\/\/sciendo.com\/issue\/PERC\/21\/1\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Perichoresis&#39;s Cover Image\" src=\"https:\/\/sciendo.com\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsciendo-parsed-data-feed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com%2F63fc89433ef6e2243deda901%2Fcover-image.jpg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vallicella, William F.. &quot;Is the Quality of Life Objectively Evaluable on Naturalism?&quot; Perichoresis, vol.21, no.1, 2023, pp.70-83. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2478\/perc-2023-0005 Abstract This article examines one of the sources of David Benatar\u2019s anti-natalism. This is the view that \u2018all procreation is [morally] wrong.\u2019 (Benatar and Wasserman, 2015:12) One of its sources is the claim that each of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/anti-natalism-article-of-mine-now-in-print-and-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Natalism Article of Mine Now in Print and Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,282,77,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-benatar-david","category-meaning-of-life","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}