The idea that thegood lifecan be taught by films was brought up by the American philosopher and professor of aestheticsStanley Cavell(see Cavell 2002, Conversations with History, Youtube).In this paper we adopt Cavell’s definition of a philosophical film, a definition which accords with Nussbaum...
suffering, risk of dying etc. This definition makes clear that riskcan only be valuated relative to a goal. If not mentioned otherwise in this paper, the termriskrelates tosuffering.
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Obviously, Ord refers to versions of NU which do not assign any value to new lives. The moderate NU, however, which is favoured in this paper (chapter 2.3) is functionally equivalent toprioritarianism. Happiness has moral value (although less than suffering). The idea thatadding a life with...