Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations

by Tim Mulgan

Book Overview

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 argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wide range of independently plausible intuitions--covering individual morality, intergenerational justice, and international justice. In particular, the moderate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199556733
• ISBN13: 9780199556731
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"