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Future People - A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations (Hardcover)
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Future People - A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations (Hardcover)
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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 approach is
superior to its two main rivals in this area - person-affecting
theories and traditional consequentialism. The former fall foul of
Parfit's Non-Identity Problem, while the latter are invariably
implausibly demanding. Mulgan also claims that most puzzles in
contemporary value theory (such as Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion)
are actually puzzles in the theory of right action, and can only be
solved if we abandon strict consequentialism for a more moderate
alternative. The heart of the book is the first systematic
exploration of the rule-consequentialist account of the morality of
individual reproduction. Mulgan demostrates that this account is
superior to all available alternatives, both consequentialist and
non-consequentialist. Once we recognise the intergenerational
dimension, moral and political philosophy cannot be considered in
isolation. The latter must be founded on the former. Rule
consequentialism provides the best foundation for a theory of
intergenerational justice. Future People brings together several
different contemporary philosophical discussions: obligations to
future generations, the morality of individual reproduction, the
demands of morality, and international justice. While the focus is
on developing a new account, there are also substantial discussions
of alternative views, especially contract-based accounts of
intergenerational justice and competing forms of consequentialism.
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