Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations
Oxford University Press (2006)
Abstract
What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He also brings together several different contemporary philosophical discussions, including the demands of morality and international justice. His aim is to produce a coherent, intuitively plausible moral theory that is not unreasonably demanding, even when extended to cover future people. While the book focuses on developing this new account, there are also substantial discussions of alternative views, especially contract-based accounts of intergenerational justice and competing forms of consequentialism.Author's Profile
Reprint years
2008
Call number
BJ1451.M79 2006
ISBN(s)
0199556733 019928220X 9780199282203 9780199556731 9780191603624
My notes
Similar books and articles
The identity and (legal) rights of future generations.Ori J. Herstein - 2009 - The George Washington Law Review 77:1173.
Review: Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations. [REVIEW]M. A. Roberts - 2007 - Mind 116 (463):770-775.
Review of Tim Mulgan, Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations. [REVIEW]Rivka Weinberg - 2006 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (12).
Obligations to Future Generations.Richard I. Sikora & Brian M. Barry (eds.) - 1978 - White Horse Press.
Parenting and Intergenerational Justice: Why Collective Obligations Towards Future Generations Take Second Place to Individual Responsibility. [REVIEW]M. L. J. Wissenburg - 2011 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 24 (6):557-573.
Conservation, foresight, and the future generations problem.Steve Vanderheiden - 2006 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 49 (4):337 – 352.
Review of mulgan, tim, future people: a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations. [REVIEW]Stuart Rachels - 2007 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (3):506-509.
Analytics
Added to PP
2009-01-28
Downloads
144 (#88,964)
6 months
5 (#154,483)
2009-01-28
Downloads
144 (#88,964)
6 months
5 (#154,483)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Totalism without Repugnance.Jacob M. Nebel - 2022 - In Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich & Ketan Ramakrishnan (eds.), Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 200-231.
Intuition, Inference, and Rational Disagreement in Ethics.Robert Audi - 2008 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11 (5):475-492.
Harming as causing harm.Elizabeth Harman - 2009 - In M. A. Roberts & D. T. Wasserman (eds.), Harming Future Persons. Springer Verlag. pp. 137--154.