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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mulgan, Tim
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Duty. Consequentialism (Ethics) Devoir. Conséquentialisme. PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Utilitarianism. Duty Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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