The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics

Buch | Hardcover

900 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-088193-1 (ISBN)

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This volume of new essays 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.

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.

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.

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 & 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 Stéphane 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 & Emil Andersson

35. Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries
Rivka Weinberg

36. Human Rights & 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 & 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 & 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

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 239 mm
Gewicht	1633 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-088193-3 / 0190881933
ISBN-13	978-0-19-088193-1 / 9780190881931
Zustand	Neuware