Suffering-focused ethics

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Suffering-focused ethics is a family of views in normative ethics that assign primary moral importance to the alleviation of suffering. Negative utilitarianism is one example of a suffering-focused ethical view, though other views in this family also assign intrinsic value to things besides suffering, including positive hedonic states as well as non-hedonic states.values.

External links

The case for suffering-focused ethics

Bibliography

Gloor, Lukas (2016) The case for suffering-focused ethics, Center on Long-Term Risk, August 26.

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