Future people : a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations / Tim Mulgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulgan, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duty.

Consequentialism (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages)

Other Title:

Moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 approachis superior to its two main rivals in this area - person-affecting theories and traditional consequentialism. The f

Contents:

The contract theory

Value theory

Hybrid moral theories

Rule consequentialism

Reproductive freedom

Optimism and pessimism

Disagreement and uncertainty

International justice

The limits of rule consequentialism

Dividing morality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-380) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-955673-3

1-281-14554-8

9786611145545

0-19-153603-2

1-4237-6795-0

OCLC:

731646902