ABSTRACT

With regard to any natural resource, we can ask whether we should obtain (more of) it. We may further hold that the answer to this question depends, at least in part, on whether there is a need in our society for the resource in question. In this paper, a framework is developed for evaluating the moral significance of arguments from need in natural resource debates. The main components of the framework are: a harm-based conception of morally significant needs; a transmission principle holding between basic and derived needs; and a bulk of considerations regarding competing concerns.

中文翻译：

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自然资源辩论中的需要论证

摘要

关于任何自然资源，我们可以问我们是否应该获得（更多）它。我们可以进一步认为，这个问题的答案至少部分取决于我们的社会是否需要所讨论的资源。在本文中，开发了一个框架来评估自然资源辩论中来自需求的论点的道德意义。该框架的主要组成部分是：基于伤害的重要道德需求概念；基本需求和派生需求之间的传递原则；以及关于竞争问题的大量考虑。