Intergenerational Justice by Axel Gosseries (English) Paperback Book

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Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between generations are everywhere. Sixteen philosophers present new explorations of intergenerational justice.

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Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between generations are everywhere. In this volume sixteen philosophers explore intergenerational justice. Part One examines the ways in which various theories of justice look at the matter. These include libertarian, Rawlsian,sufficientarian, contractarian, communitarian, Marxian and reciprocity-based approaches. In Part Two, the authors look more specifically at issues relevant to each of these theories, such as motivation toact fairly towards future generations, the population dimension, the formation of preferences through education and how they impact on our intergenerational obligations, and whether it is fair to rely on constitutional devices.

Author Biography

Axel Gosseries is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS), based at the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale (Université catholique de Louvain). He also lectures at the universities of Louvain and St-Louis (Brussels).; Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor für Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Axel Gosseries and Lukas H. Meyer: Introduction: Intergenerational Justice and Its ChallengesPart I : Theories1: Janna Thompson: Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational Polity2: Hillel Steiner & Peter Vallentyne: Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice3: Stephen M. Gardiner: A Contract on Future Generations?4: Axel Gosseries: Three Models of Intergenerational Reciprocity5: Christopher Bertram: Exploitation and Future Generations6: David Heyd: A Value or an Obligation? Rawls on Justice to Future Generations7: Daniel Attas: A Trans-Generational Difference Principle8: Lukas H. Meyer and Dominic Roser: Enough for the FuturePart II : Specific Issues9: Rahul Kumar: Wronging Future People10: Dieter Birnbacher: What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future?11: Krister Bykvist: Preference Formation and Intergenerational Justice12: Gustaf Arrhenius: Egalitarianism and Population Change13: Clark Wolf: Intergenerational Justice, Human Needs, and Climate Policy14: Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli: The Problem of a Perpetual Constitution

Review

`Review from previous edition a comprehensive work that will be useful to all scholars with an interest in modern population ethics ... the book constitutes a very significant contribution to an overall topic which - due to the fact that it is both theoretically challenging and practically highly pertinent - seems destined to constitute a continuously expanding sub-field of ethics.'Economics and Philosophy`a stimulating book ... the essays collected offer a high-quality analysis of the various problems underpinning intergenerational justice.'Antoine Verret-Hamelin, Recension DOuvraçe

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16 philosophers present new explorations of intergenerational justice

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Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between generations are everywhere. In this volume sixteen philosophers explore intergenerational justice. Part One examines the ways in which various theories of justice look at the matter. These include libertarian, Rawlsian,sufficientarian, contractarian, communitarian, Marxian and reciprocity-based approaches. In Part Two, the authors look more specifically at issues relevant to each of these theories, such as motivation toact fairly towards future generations, the population dimension, the formation of preferences through education and how they impact on our intergenerational obligations, and whether it is fair to rely on constitutional devices.

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`Review from previous edition a comprehensive work that will be useful to all scholars with an interest in modern population ethics ... the book constitutes a very significant contribution to an overall topic which - due to the fact that it is both theoretically challenging and practically highly pertinent - seems destined to constitute a continuously expanding sub-field of ethics. 'Economics and Philosophy`a stimulating book ... the essays collected offer a high-quality analysis of the various problems underpinning intergenerational justice.'Antoine Verret-Hamelin, Recension DOuvraçe

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a stimulating book ... the essays collected offer a high-quality analysis of the various problems underpinning intergenerational justice.

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Distinguished international line-up of contributorsClearly presented essays published here for the first timeAuthoritative reference point for this topic of growing interest

Details ISBN019965932X Short Title INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE Language English ISBN-10 019965932X ISBN-13 9780199659326 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.011 Year 2012 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Lukas H. Meyer Illustrations Illustrations Author Lukas H. Meyer UK Release Date 2012-09-27 Publication Date 2012-09-27 AU Release Date 2012-09-27 NZ Release Date 2012-09-27 Birth 1900 Death 1979 Affiliation University of Graz, Austria Position Associate Professor of Social Work Qualifications MD Pages 432 Publisher Oxford University Press Alternative 9780199282951 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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