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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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2018]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Год: 2018, Том: 21, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 245-257 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | NCA Этика NCD Политическая этика VA Философия |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
future generations
B non-identity problem B Risk B Contractualism |
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| Итог: | 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 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9880-z |