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In: Journal of social philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, p. 410-422
ISSN: 1467-9833
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In: Journal of social philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, p. 410-422
ISSN: 1467-9833
In: Social philosophy & policy, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 36-59
ISSN: 1471-6437
In: Ideas of education. Philosophy and politics from Plato to Dewey.
In: The Good Society: a PEGS journal, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 247-263
ISSN: 1538-9731
In: Nomos: yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, Volume 43, p. 359-382
ISSN: 0078-0979
In: Journal of social philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, p. 377-382
ISSN: 1467-9833
Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosopher, and Ellen Metzger, a scientist, clarify normative aspects of sustainability. Combining their perspectives, they propose that sustainability can be understood as the art of living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future. Curren and Metzger lay out the nature and value of sustainability, survey the problems, catalog the obstacles, and identify the kind of efforts needed to overcome them. They formulate an ethic of sustainability with lessons for government, organizations, and individuals, and illustrate key ideas with three case studies. Curren and Metzger put intergenerational justice at the heart of sustainability; discuss the need for fair (as opposed to coercive) terms of cooperation to create norms, institutions, and practices conducive to sustainability; formulate a framework for a fundamental ethic of sustainability derived from core components of common morality; and emphasize the importance of sustainability education. The three illustrative case studies focus on the management of energy, water, and food systems, examining the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Australia's National Water Management System, and patterns of food production in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia.
In: Public affairs quarterly: PAQ, Volume 25, Issue 1, p. 1-21
ISSN: 0887-0373
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Volume 7, p. 111-124
ISSN: 2153-9448
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Volume 3, p. 119-137
ISSN: 2153-9448
In: Social theory and practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, Volume 49, Issue 3, p. 385-411
ISSN: 2154-123X
This paper argues that rural children's prospects of achieving civic equality within the wider society are limited by the fact that the education they receive is not inclusive, that this is in some respects unjust, and that some partial remedies are available. The non-inclusiveness of rural education is characterized as a form of rural isolation, defined by physical and cultural distance from pathways of opportunity that are significant for civic equality, and by failures of mutually recognized mutual goodwill. Physical and cultural distance are identified as aspects of an evolving geography of opportunity, in which college graduates are highly favored and high-status opportunities are concentrated in cities.