Risking Future Generations

Many of the policy choices we face that have implications for the lives of future generations involve creating a risk that they will live lives that are significantly compromised. I argue that we can fruitfully make use of the resources of Scanlon's contractualist account of moral reasoning to...

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Main Author: Kumar, Rahul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2018]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2018, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-257
RelBib Classification:NCA Ethics
NCD Political ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B future generations
B non-identity problem
B Risk
B Contractualism
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