Intergenerational justice / edited by Axel Gosseries and Lukas H. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gosseries, Axel.

Meyer, Lukas H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intergenerational relations.

Justice.

Physical Description:

ix, 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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 to act 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.

Contents:

Part I Theories 23

1 Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational Polity / Janna Thompson 25

2 Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice / Hillel Steiner, Peter Vallentyne 50

3 A Contract on Future Generations? / Stephen M. Gardiner 77

4 Three Models of Intergenerational Reciprocity / Axel Gosseries 119

5 Exploitation and Intergenerational Justice / Christopher Bertram 147

6 A Value or an Obligation? Rawls on Justice to Future Generations / David Heyd 167

7 A Transgenerational Difference Principle / Daniel Attas 189

8 Enough for the Future / Lukas H. Meyer, Dominic Roser 219

Part II Specific Issues 249

9 Wronging Future People: A Contractualist Proposal / Rahul Kumar 251

10 What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future? / Dieter Birnbacher 273

11 Preference-formation and Intergenerational Justice / Krister Bykvist 301

12 Egalitarianism and Population Change / Gustaf Arrhenius 323

13 Intergenerational Justice, Human Needs, and Climate Policy / Clark Wolf 347

14 The Problem of a Perpetual Constitution / Vc̕tor M. Muįz-Fraticelli 377.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199282951

0199282951

OCLC:

276817424

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