Intergenerational Justice

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-965932-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy and politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gosseries, Axel

Meyer, Lukas H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Axel Gosseries and Lukas H. Meyer: Introduction: Intergenerational Justice and Its Challenges
Part I : Theories
1: Janna Thompson: Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational Polity
2: Hillel Steiner & Peter Vallentyne: Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice
3: Stephen M. Gardiner: A Contract on Future Generations?
4: Axel Gosseries: Three Models of Intergenerational Reciprocity
5: Christopher Bertram: Exploitation and Future Generations
6: David Heyd: A Value or an Obligation? Rawls on Justice to Future Generations
7: Daniel Attas: A Trans-Generational Difference Principle
8: Lukas H. Meyer and Dominic Roser: Enough for the Future
Part II : Specific Issues
9: Rahul Kumar: Wronging Future People
10: Dieter Birnbacher: What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future?
11: Krister Bykvist: Preference Formation and Intergenerational Justice
12: Gustaf Arrhenius: Egalitarianism and Population Change
13: Clark Wolf: Intergenerational Justice, Human Needs, and Climate Policy
14: Víctor M. Muñiz-Fraticelli: The Problem of a Perpetual Constitution

Über Autor(innen)

Meyer, Lukas H.
Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor für Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Gosseries, Axel
Axel Gosseries is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS), based at the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale (Université catholique de Louvain). He also lectures at the universities of Louvain and St-Louis (Brussels).

Axel Gosseries is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS), based at the Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale (Université catholique de Louvain). He also lectures at the universities of Louvain and St-Louis (Brussels).
; Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor für Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.