BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE TRANSGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY; 2 APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY; 3 THE UTILITARIAN THEORY AND THE NOT-YET-BORN; 4 CONTRACTARIAN THEORIES OF INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE; 5 RIGHTS OF FUTURE PEOPLE; 6 SUMMARY AND OPEN QUESTIONS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
For many years the environment has been treated as a free commodity, but it has become clear that we cannot continue to exploit the environment without incurring great costs for our as well as future generations. Why Posterity Matters is the first comprehensive philosophical examination that explores our duties to future generations. It raises moral questions about intergenerational distribution or the relations between people who live in different times
