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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
Table of Contents:
  • The contract theory
  • Value theory
  • Hybrid moral theories
  • Rule consequentialism
  • Reproductive freedom
  • Optimism and pessimism
  • Disagreement and uncertainty
  • International justice
  • The limits of rule consequentialism
  • Dividing morality.