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Savings and Fertility: Ethical Issues
Author(s) -
DASGUPTA PARTHA
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
philosophy and public affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.388
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1088-4963
pISSN - 0048-3915
DOI - 10.1111/j.1088-4963.1994.tb00007.x
Subject(s) - fertility , field (mathematics) , epistemology , population , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , demography , pure mathematics
... Population ethics is rightly regarded a difficult field of inquiry. Here I have tried to argue that the kinds of difficulty that have intrigued philosophers in recent years are insubstantial. Real difficulties lie elsewhere. They lie in deep conceptual problems actual people are faced with when they contemplate the desirable size of their family and the savings that should accompany it.