Intergenerational Justice

✍ Scribed by Lukas H. Meyer

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Routledge
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 522
Series: The International Library of Justice
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The essays selected for this volume show how relations between past, current and future generations have become a major subject of philosophical research since the 1970s. The relations between people alive today with people who may exist in the future and people now deceased, differ from relations between contemporaries and in ways that raise new conceptual, logical and substantive questions. Among the questions addressed in this volume are: what is the status of people now deceased and people who may exist in the future? Can the latter be harmed by the actions of people alive today? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom we can neither interact nor co-operate, and can people who are indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim compensation? Answers to these questions are relevant in a number of policy areas, most notably in issues regarding reparations for historical injustice and responding to climate change and its consequences.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1 Utilitarianism and New Generations
2 Distributive Shares
3 The Non-Identity Problem
4 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem
5 Surviving Duties and Symbolic Compensation
6 Discounting the Future
7 What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future?
PART II: SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLES OF INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE
8 Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm
9 Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice
10 Nonideal Theory
11 Enough for the Future
12 Three Models of Intergenerational Reciprocity
13 Life Extension versus Replacement
14 The Pure Intergenerational Problem
15 Climate Change and the Duties of the Advantaged
PART III: NORMATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES
16 The New Indian Claims and Original Rights to Land
17 Superseding Historic Injustice
18 The Apology Paradox
19 Transgenerational Compensation
20 Who Can Be Wronged?
21 On Benefiting from Injustice
22 Climate Justice and Historical Emissions
Name Index

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