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

by Tim Mulgan

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199556733

ISBN13:9780199556731

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:396 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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