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Human Extinction In The Pessimist Tradition, Ignacio L. Moya
Human Extinction In The Pessimist Tradition, Ignacio L. Moya
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Faced with countless threats that pose a danger to the continued existence of the human species, there has emerged a new field in philosophy known as Existential Risk Management. This discipline proposes to understand, quantify, classify and ultimately defeat the risks that exist and that threaten our continued existence. These philosophers accept that human life is good and that it should be promoted. And because of the tremendous value that is found in human life, they argue we should do whatever we can to avert our disappearance.
Philosophical pessimists hold that life is always filled with suffering and that …