Abstract The conclusion of this collection studies endeavors to recapture five major questions that special issue the Journal Jesuit Studies poses on subject martyrdom: Is gesture a form imitation Christ (or imitatio Christi) or is it itself sacrifice? How does get rid shadow suicide voluntary death? do singularity its experience and community within which in name exercised articulate? Can mart...

Abstract Many population axiologies avoid the Repugnant Conclusion (RC) by endorsing Superiority: some number of great lives is better than any mediocre lives. But as Nebel shows, RC follows (given plausible auxiliary assumptions) from Intrapersonal (IRC): a guaranteed life sufficiently small probability life. This result concerning because IRC plausible. Recently, Kosonen has argued that can b...

This article articulates and defends a dissolution of the so-called repugnant conclusion, which focuses on notion life worth living figuring both in Parfit's formulation conclusion most responses to such conclusion. The proposed demonstrates that is plagued by multiple ambiguities these ambiguities, turn, hamper meaningful debate about issue whether can be avoided actually repugnant. result doe...