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What we owe to future people : a contractualist account of intergenerational ethics
Title
What we owe to future people : a contractualist account of intergenerational ethics / Elizabeth Finneron-Burns.
ISBN
9780197653289
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Also issued in print: 2024.
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Summary
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.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2024
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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