Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations

This book develops a new theory of the obligations to future generations, based on a new Rule Consequentialist account of the morality of individual.
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Future People

Future People A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations Tim Mulgan A striking new account of the basis of our obligations to future generations Presents a new theory of the morality of reproduction Links individual morality, political philosophy, and international justice Second book by a highly talented moral philosopher. Purpose in the Universe Tim Mulgan.

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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 also brings together several different contemporary philosophical discussions, including the demands of morality and international justice. His aim is to produce a coherent, intuitively plausible moral theory that is not unreasonably demanding, even when extended to cover future people. While the book focuses on developing this new account, there are also substantial discussions of alternative views, especially contract-based accounts of intergenerational justice and competing forms of consequentialism.

Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations

Consequentialism in Applied Ethics in Normative Ethics. Future Generations in Applied Ethics. Varieties of Consequentialism, Misc in Normative Ethics.


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The final chapters argue that while it will include a Rule Consequentialist account of the morality of reproduction, the best overall moral theory is likely to be a composite one, such as the Combined Consequentialism the author developed in The Demands of Consequentialism. Consequentialism , future generations , Rule Consequentialism , intergenerational justice , international justice , Parfit , Repugnant Conclusion , demandingness , reproduction , non-identity.


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