The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gardiner, Stephen M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The philosopher John Rawls once said that "the question of justice between generations...subjects any ethical theory to severe if not impossible tests." This volume aims to illuminate those tests, indicate the progress made in resolving them, and take some steps of its own. It focuses on the increasing relevance of intergenerational ethics to key challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, rapid technological change, the expanding human population, and threats of extinction. It features philosophers and political theorists of international standing, providing a cutting-edge perspective on these issues. Part A considers how intergenerational ethics should be understood from the point of view of leading contemporary moral and political theories, as well as approaches grounded in diverse cultural traditions. Topics include consequentialism, deontology, the ethics of care, contractualism, communitarianism, indigenous perspectives on ancestry, capabilities, republicanism, Buen Vivir, nonanthropocentrism, Confucianism, Maori philosophy, and African intergenerational ethics. Part B reflects on key concepts that structure public and academic discussions of intergenerational issues, such as sustainability, natural heritage, well-being, basic needs, meaning, and the threat of intergenerational tyranny. Part C addresses central issues that arise in intergenerational ethics. These range from key philosophical problems to how to understand political ideals to questions about the limits of appropriate concern. Chapters focus on areas such as: just savings principles, discounting in economics, duties to the past, the nonidentity problem, the repugnant conclusion, discursive justice, shaping intergenerational institutions, and whether to make threatening human extinction an international crime. Part D concludes by sampling topics that have a special importance in intergenerational affairs, such as pensions, inheritance, reparations, intergenerational debt, nuclear weapons, human population size, species conservation, and genetic enhancement of humans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 900
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190881955
• Artikelnr.: 75203169

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (2011), and co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (2016). His edited books include The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate (2020), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (2010) and Virtue Ethics: Old and New (2005). His latest book, Dialogues on Climate Justice (co-authored with Arthur Obst), tells the story of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a series of conversations about ethics and justice in a climate-challenged world.

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* The Intergenerational Turn in Ethics: Modest Extension, Major
Transformation, or Jealous Virtues?
* Stephen M. Gardiner
* PART A. THEORIES AND TRADITIONS
* 1. Consequentialism as an Intergenerational Ethic
* Tim Mulgan
* 2. A Deontological Approach to Future Consequences
* Molly Gardner
* 3. For a Care-based Intergenerational Ethic
* Ruth Makoff and Rupert Read
* 4. Contractualism, Interpersonal and Intergenerational
* Rahul Kumar
* 5. Intergenerational Cooperation and the Social Contract
* Joseph Heath
* 6. Constructivist Contractualism and Future Generations
* Gustaf Arrhenius and Emil Andersson
* 7. Intergenerational Justice and Equality
* Clark Wolf
* 8. Global Intergenerational Justice: A Cosmopolitan Perspective
* Simon Caney
* 9. The Community, The Nation, and Obligations to Future Generations
* Avner de-Shalit
* 10. Hume, Republicanism, and Relations to Posterity
* John O'Neill and John Salter
* 11. Capabilities, Future Generations, and Climate Justice
* Breena Holland
* 12. Long-Term Non-anthropocentric Ethics
* John Nolt
* 13. Ancestry and Crisis: Intergenerational Ethics and Ecocentrism
* Kyle Whyte
* 14. Confucianism and Intergenerational Ethics
* Marion Hourdequin and David B. Wong
* 15. Kaitiakitanga: Toward an Intergenerational Philosophy
* Krushil Wahene
* 16. Intergenerational Justice: An African Perspective
* Ernest-Marie Mbonda and Thierry Ngosso
* 17. Buen Vivir: A Latin American Contribution to Intra- and
Intergenerational Ethics
* Graciela Vidiella and Facundo Garcia Valverde
* PART B. KEY CONCEPTS
* 18. The Centrality of the Tyranny of the Contemporary to
Intergenerational Ethics
* Stephen M. Gardiner
* 19. Intergenerational Metaphors
* Axel Gosseries
* 20. Well-being and Intergenerational Ethics
* Andrew Moore
* 21. Basic Needs and Sufficiency: the Foundations of Intergenerational
Justice
* Lucas H. Meyer and Thomas Polzer
* 22. Natural Resources, Sustainability and Intergenerational Ethics
* Chris Armstrong
* 23. The Intergenerational Value of Natural Heritage
* Angela Karlhoff
* 24. Irreversible Loss
* Kai Spiekermann
* 25. Meaning and Value Across the Generations
* Samuel Scheffler
* 26. A World They Don't Deserve: Moral failure and deep adaptation
* Allen Thompson
* PART C. CENTRAL ISSUES
* 27. Discounting and Intergenerational Ethics
* Marc Fleurbaey and Stephane Zuber
* 28. The Sustainabilitarian Approach: Utilitarianism, the Discounting
of Future Welfare Levels, and Sustainability
* John E. Roemer
* 29. Justice between Coexisting Generations
* Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure
* 30. The Just Savings Principle
* Eric Brandstedt
* 31. The Family and Intergenerational Justice: A Liberal Egalitarian
Perspective
* Colin M. Macleod
* 32. Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?
* Geoffrey Scarre
* 33. Parfit and the Non-Identity Problem
* David Boonin
* 34. The Repugnant Conclusion: an Overview
* Gustaf Arrhenius and Emil Andersson
* 35. Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries
* Rivka Weinberg
* 36. Human Rights and Intergenerational Ethics
* Marcus Duwell
* 37. Discursive Justice in and with Future Generations
* Michael Blake
* 38. Intergenerational Ethics and Individual Duties: A Cooperative
Promotional Approach
* Elizabeth Cripps
* 39. Political Institutions and Intergenerational Ethics:
Disenfranchising the Future?
* Anja Karnein
* 40. Postericide and Intergenerational Ethics
* Catriona McKinnon
* PART D: SPECIAL TOPICS
* 41. Universal State Pension Schemes and the Duties of Retirees
* Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
* 42. On "Dynastic" Inequality
* Dan Halliday and Miranda Stewart
* 43. Intergenerational Justice and Debt
* Patrick Taylor Smith
* 44. Reparation as Intergenerational Justice
* Janna Thompson
* 45. Should We Deploy Nuclear Energy? How Intergenerational Ethics
Could Help to Escape the Dichotomy
* Behnam Taebi
* 46. Nuclear Deterrence - Another Perfect Storm
* Matthew Rendall
* 47. The Challenge of Population
* Sarah Conly
* 48. Species Conservation, Biotechnology, and Intergenerational Ethics
* Ron Sandler
* 49. Moral Bioenhancement and Future Generations: Selecting Martyrdom?
* Julian Savulescu and Hilary Bowman-Smart