Why worry about future fenerations? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scheffler, Samuel, 1951- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Uehiro series in practical ethics.
Subjects:	Intergenerational relations > Moral and ethical aspects. Social ethics. Generations > Moral and ethical aspects. Ethics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; WHY WORRY ABOUT FUTURE GENERATIONS?; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter one: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents; Chapter two: Reasons to Worry: Interest and Love; Chapter three: Reasons to Worry: Valuation and Reciprocity; Chapter four: Attachment and Axiology; Chapter five: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations; The conservative disposition; The bias toward the future and its limits; Thinking about future generations: contrasting perspectives revisited; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX