What we owe to future people: a contractualist account of intergenerational ethics
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Beteilige Person: Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press [2024]
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Abstract:What do we owe future people? Intergenerational ethics is of great philosophical and practical importance, given human beings' ability to affect not only the quality of life of future people, but also how many of them there will be (if any at all). This book develops a distinctly contractualist answer to this question--we need to justify our actions to them on grounds they could not reasonably reject. The book explores what future people could or could not reasonably reject in terms of intergenerational resource distribution, individual procreative decisions, optimal population size, and risk imposition.
Umfang:xi, 220 Seiten 21,8 cm
ISBN:9780197653258