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David Benatar

Philosophy

#253

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#594

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Ethics

#34

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#46

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Metaphysics

#67

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#100

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Logic

#1988

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#2877

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David Benatar's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of Cape Town
Masters Philosophy University of Cape Town
Bachelors Philosophy University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, David Benatar is a South African philosopher, academic, and author. He is best known for his advocacy of antinatalism in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, in which he argues that coming into existence is serious harm, regardless of the feelings of the existing being once brought into existence, and that, as a consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings.

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David Benatar's Published Works

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Better never to have been : the harm of coming into existence (2006) (300)
Better Never to Have Been (2006) (164)
Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision (2003) (135)
Why it is better never to come into existence (1997) (45)
The Unbearable Lightness of Bringing into Being (1999) (45)
A Pain in the Fetus: Toward Ending Confusion About Fetal Pain (2001) (45)
Bioethics and health and human rights: a critical view (2005) (40)
Procreation and Parenthood (2010) (35)
The chickens come home to roost. (2007) (35)
The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism (2015) (33)
Still Better Never to Have Been: A Reply to (More of) My Critics (2013) (32)
Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children (2011) (30)
The trouble with universal declarations. (2005) (26)
3:2 Target Article authors respond to Commentators: How Not to Argue About Circumcision (2003) (21)
How not to argue about circumcision. (2003) (20)
The Second Sexism (2003) (19)
Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism (2012) (17)
Justice, diversity and racial preference : a critique of affirmative action (2008) (17)
The Limits of Reproductive Freedom (2010) (15)
Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions (2010) (15)
Statement on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. (1994) (15)
The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys (2012) (15)
Just admissions : South African universities and the question of racial preference (2010) (15)
A legal right to die: responding to slippery slope and abuse arguments. (2011) (13)
A tale of two novel transplants not done: the ethics of limb allografts (2002) (13)
Evaluations of circumcision should be circumscribed by the evidence (2013) (12)
Moral theories may have some role in teaching applied ethics (2007) (11)
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions (2017) (11)
Taking Humour (Ethics) Seriously, But Not Too Seriously (2014) (9)
The wrong of wrongful life (2000) (7)
Reproductive freedom and risk. (2006) (6)
Grim news from the original position: a reply to Professor Doyal (2007) (6)
Against Commanding to Believe (2001) (6)
Why the Naïve Argument against Moral Vegetarianism Really is Naïve (2001) (5)
Teaching moral theories is an option: reply to Rob Lawlor (2009) (5)
Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong to Reproduce? (2015) (5)
Global Health and Global Health Ethics: Animals, the environment and global health (2011) (5)
Indiscretion and other threats to confidentiality (2010) (5)
Informed consent and research (1998) (5)
Should there be a legal right to die? (2010) (4)
Responding to Objections (2012) (4)
WHAT'S GOD GOT TO DO WITH IT? ATHEISM AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE (2006) (4)
Famine, Affluence, and Procreation: Peter Singer and Anti-Natalism Lite (2020) (4)
How does anybody live in this strange place? A reply to Samantha Vice (2012) (3)
A FIRST NAME BASIS? (2011) (3)
How Bad is Coming into Existence (2006) (2)
Beyond the haze of the tobacco bill debate. (1999) (2)
Duty and the beast: animal experimentation and neglected interests. (2000) (2)
A storm in a turban (2006) (2)
Animals, the Environment, and Global Health (2021) (2)
Procreative permissiveness (2014) (2)
Grim news for an unoriginal position: a reply to Seth Baum (2009) (2)
Not “Not ‘Better Never to Have Been’”: A Reply to Christine Overall (2018) (2)
HIV and the hemi-nanny state. (2002) (2)
Life Is Not Good (2016) (2)
Jews in Denmark (2006) (2)
What’s So Good about Non-Existence? An Alternative Explanation of Four Asymmetrical Value Judgments (2013) (2)
From medical manners to moral reasoning: an historical overview of bioethics in the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. (2012) (1)
Unscientific Ethics: Science and Selective Ethics (2007) (1)
The Owl and the Ostrich: Reply to Sami Pihlström on Ethical Unthinkabilities and Philosophical Seriousness (2011) (1)
The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics: Non-therapeutic pediatric interventions (2008) (1)
No life is good (2011) (1)
Alternatives to Impersonal Approaches: Birthrights and Role-Based Duties (2015) (1)
Philosophy not Ideology : A Response to Ward Jones and (2013) (1)
The Second Sexism, a Second Time (2003) (1)
Rape and the Straw Man (2015) (1)
A FIRST NAME BASIS? – ERRATUM (2011) (1)
Suicide: A Qualified Defense (2013) (1)
Cloning and ethics. (1998) (1)
To Be or Not to Have Been?: Defective Counterfactual Reasoning About One’s Own Existence (2001) (1)
Reproducing Companion Animals (2017) (1)
Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction (2011) (1)
Misconceived: Why These Further Criticisms of Anti-natalism Fail (2022) (1)
A Précis of Your Predicament (2017) (0)
Straw People and Allografted Limbs (2020) (0)
Book Review (2002) (0)
Review of Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, New York: W.W. Norton, 2015 (2015) (0)
ETHICS POLICIES AND REASONING ABOUT ETHICS. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1998) (0)
Where are the males? Diversity, proportionality and Health Sciences admissions. (2016) (0)
A justification for rights (1992) (0)
Misconceived: Why These Further Criticisms of Anti-natalism Fail (2022) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
Abortion: The ‘Pro‐Death’ View (2006) (0)
We Have No Moral Duty to Eat Meat: A Reply to Nick Zangwill (2022) (0)
Having Children: The Anti‐Natal View (2006) (0)
Erratum (2005) (0)
Ethics of limb allografts. Authors' reply (2002) (0)
Ethics policies and reasoning about ethics. (1998) (0)
Jonathan Glover, Choosing Children: The Ethical Dilemmas of Genetic Intervention (2007) (0)
Abortion -- some practical and ethical considerations [editorial] (1994) (0)
Famine, Affluence, and Procreation: Peter Singer and Anti-Natalism Lite (2020) (0)
Confidentiality : main topic (2003) (0)
From Disadvantage to Wrongful Discrimination (2012) (0)
Obligation, Motivation and Reward: An Analysis of a Talmudic Principle (2002) (0)
Still Better Never to Have Been: A Reply to (More of) My Critics (2012) (0)
Why Coming into Existence is Always a Harm (2006) (0)
Introducing Anti-Natalism (2015) (0)
The Uphill Battle of Unpopular Ideas (2022) (0)
Review of Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, New York: W.W. Norton, 2015 (2015) (0)
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and the Quality of Life, by David DeGrazia. (2014) (0)
Cartoons and consequences (2008) (0)
Christine Overall: Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (2014) (0)
Not “Not ‘Better Never to Have Been’”: A Reply to Christine Overall (2018) (0)
The Misanthropic Argument (2015) (0)
ical ethics, but one that may be overriden in some circumstances. MAIN TOPIC (2003) (0)
Abortion--some practical and ethical considerations. (1994) (0)
A Précis of Your Predicament (2018) (0)
Referees for volume 7 (2008) (0)
Teaching Ethics for Everyday (2006) (0)
Obscurity, falsehood, and innuendo – A response to M. John Lamola (2018) (0)
There's no method in the badness. (2013) (0)
The Harm of Coming into Existence (2007) (0)
Inflation: a study of its effects and the accounting and management responses developed br American companies in the period 1985 to 1987 (2016) (0)
Explaining Male Disadvantage and Thinking about Sex Differences (2012) (0)
Professor Doyal Grim news from the original position: a reply to (2007) (0)
The Asymmetry Argument (2015) (0)
Emotional support animals are not like prosthetics: a response to Sara Kolmes (2020) (0)
Christine Overall: Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (2013) (0)
Medical ethics : guest editorial (2003) (0)
The Gendered Conference Campaign: A Critique (2014) (0)
The Gendered Conference Campaign: A Critique (2015) (0)
Population and Extinction (2006) (0)
Suicide Is Sometimes Rational and Morally Defensible (2020) (0)
Humor, Ethics of (2013) (0)
The Second Sexism by David Benatar (2006) (0)
The optimism delusion (2008) (0)
My turn and my right (2012) (0)
The Quality-of-Life Argument (2015) (0)

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University of Cape Town

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Better Never to Have Been