
Intergenerational Justice
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 27. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-19-965932-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Review from previous edition a comprehensive work that will be useful to all scholars with an interest in modern population ethics ... the book constitutes a very significant contribution to an overall topic which - due to the fact that it is both theoretically challenging and practically highly pertinent - seems destined to constitute a continuously expanding sub-field of ethics. * Economics and Philosophy * a stimulating book ... the essays collected offer a high-quality analysis of the various problems underpinning intergenerational justice. * Antoine Verret-Hamelin, Recension DOuvraA?e *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Advanced students and scholars of philosophy and politics
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-965932-6 (9780199659326)
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Axel Gosseries | Lukas H. Meyer
Intergenerational Justice
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05/2009
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Persons
Axel Gosseries is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS), based at the Chaire Hoover d'ethique economique et sociale (Universite catholique de Louvain). He also lectures at the universities of Louvain and St-Louis (Brussels).
; Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor fuer Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
; Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor fuer Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Editor
, Universite Catholique de Louvain
, University of Graz, Austria
Content
PART I : THEORIES; PART II : SPECIFIC ISSUES