Intergenerational Justice: Rights and Responsibilities in an Intergenerational Polity - Brossura

Libro 7 di 207: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Thompson, Janna

 
9780415845229: Intergenerational Justice: Rights and Responsibilities in an Intergenerational Polity
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ISBN 10: 041584522X ISBN 13: 9780415845229
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Sinossi

In this timely study, Thompson presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, showing why people can make legitimate demands of their successors and explaining what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair. What connects these various responsibilities and entitlements is a view about individual interests that both argues that individuals are motivated by intergenerational concerns, and that a polity that appropriately recognizes these interests must support and accept intergenerational responsibilities. The book ranges over the philosophical, ethical, political and environmental questions raised by intergenerational issues: how we can have duties to non-existent people, whether we can wrong the dead or be held responsible for what they did, what sacrifices we should make for our successors, and whether we have duties to people of the remote future. Encompassing the ethical problems created by demographic change, the ethical issues of population control and intergenerational implications of new technologies for creating people, this book will be of interest to those studying philosophy, politics, legal theory, and environmental studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Janna Thompson is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Taking Responsibility for the Past and other articles and books on historical obligations, environmental ethics and intergenerational justice.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
041584522X
ISBN 13 
9780415845229
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
198
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Germania

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780415996280: Intergenerational Justice: Rights and Responsibilities in an Intergenerational Polity

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0415996287 ISBN 13:  9780415996280
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009
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