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The term "wisdom of repugnance" was coined in 1997 by Leon Kass, chairman (2001–2005) of the President's Council on Bioethics, in an article in The New Republic, [4] which was later expanded into a further (2001) article in the same magazine, [5] and also incorporated into his 2002 book Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity.
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In common law, repugnancy refers to a contradiction or inconsistency between clauses of the same document, deed, or contract, or between allegations of the same pleading. [1] [2] In English law, the court will resolve contradictions in a document based on the primary intention of the parties; if this cannot be established, the court treats the earlier statement as effective in the case of a ...
The mere addition paradox (also known as the repugnant conclusion) is a problem in ethics identified by Derek Parfit and discussed in his book Reasons and Persons (1984). The paradox identifies the mutual incompatibility of four intuitively compelling assertions about the relative value of populations.
Repugnancy costs measure the degree of dislike toward a repugnant market or transaction by appealing to the concept of equalizing differences developed by Adam Smith: "What is the minimum compensation that we have to provide to an individual to be willing to allow a repugnant market or transaction?"
Distributive justice concerns the socially just allocation of resources, goods, opportunity in a society.It is concerned with how to allocate resources fairly among members of a society, taking into account factors such as wealth, income, and social status.
In The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin critiques the concept as "repugnant to millions of human beings ... Isolation, alternating with time spent in society, is the normal desire of human nature." Isolation, alternating with time spent in society, is the normal desire of human nature."
The universe, consequently, would be off center, so to speak—lopsided and asymmetric—a notion repugnant to any Greek, and doubly so to a Pythagorean. [13] This could be corrected by another body with the same mass as Earth, orbiting the same central point but 180 degrees from Earth—the Counter-Earth. [6]