Future people : a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations /

What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wid...

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Moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations
1. Verfasser:
Mulgan, Tim
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wide range of independently plausible intuitions - covering individual morality, intergenerational justice, and international justice. In particular, the moderate consequentialist approachis superior to its two main rivals in this area - person-affecting theories and traditional consequentialism. The f
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1 online resource (384 pages)
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-380) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-955673-3
1-281-14554-8
9786611145545
0-19-153603-2
1-4237-6795-0
Schlagworte:
Duty.
Consequentialism (Ethics)
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