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Author: R. I. Sikora
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781874267317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reprint of a collection of essays on problems concerning future generations examines questions such as whether intrinsic value should be placed on the preservation of mankind, what are our obligations to posterity, and whether potential people have moral rights.
Author: Tim Mulgan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-11-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199556731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTim Mulgan develops an original theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He brings together several different contemporary philosophical issues, including the demands of morality and international justice.
Author: Joerg Chet Tremmel
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2009-12
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1849774366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' non-identity paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a veil of ignorance to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: what to sustain? and how much to sustain?
Author: Peter Lawrence
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2014-04-25
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0857934163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Lawrence�s Justice for Future Generations breaks new ground by using a multidisciplinary approach to tackle the issue of what ethical obligations current generations have towards future generations in addressing the threat of climate change. This
Author: Avner De-Shalit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-20
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1134856482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive philosophical examination of our duties to future generations, Dr de-Shalit argues that they are a matter of justice, not charity or supererogation.
Author: Serena Olsaretti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 0199645124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute benefits and burdens fairly? Thirty-eight leading figures from philosophy and political theory present specially written critical assessments of the key issues in this flourishing area of research.
Author: Ernest Partridge
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Brown Weiss
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Professor Weiss combines thorough research and careful analysis with imaginative solutions and a moral fervour, to show how rules of international law can be applied in an intertemporal dimension, and how the basic principles of the intergenerational equity can be developed to provide new standards for human behaviour. She manages to communicate to the reader not only that the situation is getting desperate but also that human intelligence can in time devise adequate remedies, without destroying completely our way of life.
Author: Stephen Mark Gardiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0199941335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Author: John Broome
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-07-23
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0393084094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate. Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal standards of goodness and justice require of us, both as citizens and as governments. His conclusions—some as demanding as they are logical—will challenge and enlighten. Eco-conscious readers may be surprised to hear they have a duty to offset all their carbon emissions, while policy makers will grapple with Broome’s analysis of what if anything is owed to future generations. From the science of greenhouse gases to the intricate logic of cap and trade, Broome reveals how the principles that underlie everyday decision making also provide simple and effective ideas for confronting climate change. Climate Matters is an essential contribution to one of the paramount issues of our time.
