Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption

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Antinatalism, Extinction, and the End of Procreative Self-Corruption
	Contents
	Introduction
	1 Western Philosophy as a Struggle against Antinatalism
		1.1 First Alarm: Scientific Worldview and Aversion to Children
		1.2 First Reaction: Giving Birth to Western Philosophy
		1.3 Second Alarm: Virtue and Christianity
		1.4 Second Reaction: Philosophizing Christianity
		1.5 The Long Aftermath of the Second Reaction: Evasive
Maneuvers
		1.6 Third Alarm and Reaction: Happiness and Freedom versus
a Weaker and Kinder Creator
	2 Antinatalism and Extinction
		2.1 Good Lives, Bad Lives, and the Possibility of Different Routes
		2.2 Against Reproduction: All, Sentient, and Self-Aware
		2.3 Against Reproduction: Human – All and Some
		2.4 Explaining Extinction Away
		2.5 Postponing and Evading Extinction
		2.6 A Note on Sources and Moving On
	3 Procreative Self-Corruption
		3.1 The Standard Arguments for and against Having Children
		3.2 Wrong and Right Outlined in Terms of Need Frustration
		3.3 The Ones Who Create Omelas
		3.4 An Argument from Reiteration and the Procreator’s Dilemma
		3.5 The One, the Many, and Meaning Cocreated
		3.6 Routes to Ending Procreative Self-Corruption
Notes
References
Acknowledgments