Why worry about future generations?
Why should we care what happens to future generations? Samuel Scheffler argues that we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our own attachments are powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing.
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- Full title :Why worry about future generations? / Samuel Scheffler.
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Why should we care what happens to future generations? Samuel Scheffler argues that we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our own attachments are powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing.
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- Publication Date:2018.
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780192523945, 0192523945, 9780191861802, 0191861804
- oclc:on1031374208
- LC Classification:HM726
- Dewey Decimal:171.7
Table of Contents
Cover; WHY WORRY ABOUT FUTURE GENERATIONS?; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter one: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents; Chapter two: Reasons to Worry: Interest and Love; Chapter three: Reasons to Worry: Valuation and Reciprocity; Chapter four: Attachment and Axiology; Chapter five: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations; The conservative disposition; The bias toward the future and its limits; Thinking about future generations: contrasting perspectives revisited; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
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