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.…mehr
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.
Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Western Ontario and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her work on intergenerational ethics and the ethics of human extinction has been published in various journals including Utilitas, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
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Acknowledgements A 'Mind-Bending Topic' 1: Contractualism(s) 2: Justification to Future People 3: Intergenerational Resource Distribution 4: Permissible Procreation 5: Optimal Population Size 6: Our Future is Uncertain 7: What Do We Owe to Future People? 8: Conclusion Bibliography
Acknowledgements A 'Mind-Bending Topic' 1: Contractualism(s) 2: Justification to Future People 3: Intergenerational Resource Distribution 4: Permissible Procreation 5: Optimal Population Size 6: Our Future is Uncertain 7: What Do We Owe to Future People? 8: Conclusion Bibliography
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