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The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People (Hardcover)
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The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People (Hardcover)
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David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a
puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. Our
actions sometimes have an effect not only on the quality of life
that people will enjoy in the future, but on which particular
people will exist in the future to enjoy it. In cases where this is
so, the combination of certain assumptions that most people seem to
accept can yield conclusions that most people seem to reject. The
non-identity problem has important implications both for ethical
theory and for a number of topics in applied ethics, including
controversial issues in bioethics, environmental ethics and
disability ethics. It has been the subject of a great deal of
discussion for nearly four decades, but this is the first
book-length study devoted exclusively to its examination. Boonin
begins by explaining what the problem is, why the problem matters,
and what criteria a solution to the problem must satisfy in order
to count as a successful one. He then provides a critical survey of
the solutions to the problem that have thus far been proposed in
the sizeable literature that the problem has generated and
concludes by developing and defending an unorthodox alternative
solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other
available approach.
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