Why worry about future generations? / Samuel Scheffler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheffler, Samuel, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Uehiro series in practical ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intergenerational relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Intergenerational relations.

Generations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Generations.

Social ethics.

Responsibility.

Humanity.

Physical Description:

viii, 146 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Why should we care what happens to future generations? Samuel Scheffler argues that we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our own attachments are powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing.

Contents:

1 Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents p. 1

2 Reasons to Worry: Interest and Love p. 40

3 Reasons to Worry: Valuation and Reciprocity p. 68

4 Attachment and Axiology p. 87

5 Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations p. 105.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0198798989

9780198798989

OCLC:

1008759379