According to David Benatar’s anti-natalism, the extinction of all sentient life, including that humans, is morally desirable. That claim contested in this article. The author commences by showing parallels between position and existentialist Albert Camus. He points out that, also for Camus, "death better" meant a moral sense. This followed general exposition anti-natalism. Particular attention...

Iris Meyer Abstract In this paper I present the concept of hope as a human driving force aimed at a better future, in accordance with and on the basis of the thought of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch, with reference to Albert Camus' notion of the absurd. Hope, I shall argue, is situated in the reality of the present; however, insofar as it aspires to the future, it contrasts the actual pres...