Risking Future Generations
Many of the policy choices we face that have implications for the lives of future generations involve creating a risk that they will live lives that are significantly compromised. I argue that we can fruitfully make use of the resources of Scanlon's contractualist account of moral reasoning to...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2018]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Año: 2018, Volumen: 21, Número: 2, Páginas: 245-257 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | NCA Ética NCD Ética política VA Filosofía |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
future generations
B non-identity problem B Risk B Contractualism |
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| Sumario: | Many of the policy choices we face that have implications for the lives of future generations involve creating a risk that they will live lives that are significantly compromised. I argue that we can fruitfully make use of the resources of Scanlon's contractualist account of moral reasoning to make sense of the intuitive idea that, in many cases, the objection to adopting a policy that puts the interest of future generations at risk is that doing so wrongs those who will live in the further future. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9880-z |