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Utility and the Survival Lottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Peter Singer
Peter Singer
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Monash University
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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 52 , Issue 200 , April 1977, pp. 218 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1977

References

1 Harris, John, ‘The Survival Lottery’, Philosophy 50 (1975), 81.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

2 Ryan, Alan has suggested (though not necessarily endorsed) some of these objections in ‘Two Kinds of Morality’, The Hastings Center Report 5, no. 5 (1975), 5.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

3 See, for instance, Bennett, Jonathan, ‘Whatever the Consequences’, Analysis 26 (1966)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tooley, Michael, ‘Abortion and Infanticide’. Philosophy and Public Affairs 2, no. 1 (1972)Google Scholar; and Glover, Jonathan's forthcoming book, Causing Death and Saving Lives.Google Scholar

4 Yudkin, John, Pure, White and Deadly: the Problem of Sugar (London: Davis-Poynter, 1972).Google Scholar

5 Lancet, 30 12 1972.Google Scholar

6 Mill, J. S., On Liberty (London: J. M. Dent, 1910), 75.Google Scholar