Analiza i Egzystencja (Jan 2016)

Czy istnienie może być lepsze albo gorsze od nieistnienia? Część I: Ustalanie wartości w ramach dobrostanu

  • Mirosław Rutkowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18276/aie.2016.35-02
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35

Abstract

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CAN EXISTENCE BE BETTER OR WORSE THAN NONEXISTENCE? PART I The aim of this paper is to examine whether there is any possibility to compare thevalue of someone’s existence with his nonexistence. The final conclusion is thatsuch a comparative evaluation can never be made in a meaningful and valid manner.Nobody can know as well whether he would be better off or worse off created thanhe would have been had he never existed.

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