Why Worry About Future Generations?
In: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
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In: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
In: Uehiro series in practical ethics
The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and have argued that we have duties of beneficence to promote the well-being of our descendants. Rather than focusing exclusively on issues of moral responsibility, Samuel Scheffler considers the broader question of why and how future generations matter to us. Although we lack a developed set of ideas about the value of human continuity, we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our existing values and attachments are a variety of powerful reasons for wanting the chain of human generations to persist into the indefinite future under conditions conducive to human flourishing.
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This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1994, given by Samuel Scheffler, an American philosopher.
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