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OverviewThe things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral responsibility, Samuel Scheffler considers the broader question of why and how future generations matter to us. Although we lack a developed set of ideas about the value of human continuity, we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our existing values and attachments are a variety of powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing. This has implications for the way we think about problems like climate change. And it means that some of our strongest reasons for caring about the future of humanity depend not on our moral duty to promote the good but rather on our existing evaluative attachments and on our conservative disposition to preserve and sustain the things that we value. This form of conservatism supports rather than inhibits a concern for future generations, and it is an important component of the complex stance we take toward the temporal dimension of our lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samuel Scheffler (University Professor of Philosophy and Law, University Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 19.40cm Weight: 0.174kg ISBN: 9780198854869ISBN 10: 0198854862 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 30 January 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents 2: Reasons to Worry: Interest and Love 3: Reasons to Worry: Valuation and Reciprocity 4: Attachment and Axiology 5: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future GenerationsReviewsWhy Worry About Future Generations? is a very sophisticated, brilliant and original book...In conclusion, this beautiful book effectively opens up a new path of research which, if further investigated, can really solve many of the problems that beset classic theories of intergenerational justice. * Fausto Corvino, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice * Author InformationSamuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He works primarily in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value. His writings have addressed central questions in ethical theory, and he has also written on topics as diverse as equality, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, toleration, terrorism, immigration, tradition, and the moral significance of personal relationships. He is the author of five previous books: The Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, Equality and Tradition, and Death and the Afterlife. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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