Future people : a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations /
The author develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. His aim is to produce a coherent, intuitively plausible moral theory which can be extended to cover future people.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The author develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. His aim is to produce a coherent, intuitively plausible moral theory which can be extended to cover future people. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-380) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423767950 9781423767954 019928220X 9780199282203 9780191603624 0191603627 0199556733 9780199556731 1281145548 9781281145543 9786611145545 6611145540 0191536032 9780191536038 |