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LIFE AND DEATH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2015

Ken Binmore
Ken Binmore*
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Philosophy Department, Bristol University, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract:

What is the value of a life? How should we regard death? This paper uses the methods of economics to defend some of the views of Epicurus against the utilitarian approach that welfare economics takes for granted.

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Epicurusataraxiatiming of decisionsutilitarianismmodelling death
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 75 - 97
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