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Why Worry About Future Generations? (Hardcover)
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Why Worry About Future Generations? (Hardcover)
Series: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
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The things we do today may make life worse for future generations.
But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born
until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this
as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued
that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our
descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral
responsibility, Samuel Scheffler considers the broader question of
why and how future generations matter to us. Although we lack a
developed set of ideas about the value of human continuity, we are
more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize.
Implicit in our existing values and attachments are a variety of
powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to
persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to
human flourishing. This has implications for the way we think about
problems like climate change. And it means that some of our
strongest reasons for caring about the future of humanity depend
not on our moral duty to promote the good but rather on our
existing evaluative attachments and on our conservative disposition
to preserve and sustain the things that we value. This form of
conservatism supports rather than inhibits a concern for future
generations, and it is an important component of the complex stance
we take toward the temporal dimension of our lives.
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