Justice to future generations and the environment
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Justice to future generations and the environment
(Law and philosophy library, v. 40)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1999
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB) Library , Kobe University図書
320.1-38081000094297
Note
Bibliography: p. 161-164
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls' theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural context of our intuitions about intergenerational equity. Although the desire for justice supplies an independent reason for action, the unprecedented character of the context in which that reason must operate necessarily raises the question of its psychological support: we want justice for future people, but what interest do we have in their welfare in the first place? I have tried to capture this double orientation by making use of Thomas Nagel's conceptual dichotomy between the objective, detached point of view, and the subjective (in our case: the cuturally and historically situated) perspective. There is, on the one hand, a desire for justice that tends towards the definition of transhistorical standards, detached from the particular values ofthe time and place; there is, on the other hand, a motivational background that is tied to our present position in history, and nourished by the values we presently believe in. I have attempted to bridge the gap between the one and the other dimension by different conceptual avenues, the principal one being a time-related interpretation of Rawls' concept of equal liberty: justice wants us to maintain the worth of liberty over time by perpetuating the conditions of its meaningful exercise.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1: Introduction. 1.1. The Just Basic Structure. 1.2. The Two Perspectives. 2: Clarifying the Issue. 2.1. No General Account of Rights and Duties Between Generations. 2.2. The Sustainable Economy. 2.3. The Challenge to the Legal System. 2.4. The Ecological Discourse and Justice Between Generations. 2.5. Macro-Ethics. 3: The Setting. 3.1. The Environment: General Features. 3.2. Conceptual Issues. 4: Justice: A Detached Perspective. 4.1. Why Justice? 4.2. Justice over Time and Reciprocity. 4.3. Rawls on Future Generations: An Overview. 5: Justice in Context: The View From the Present. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2. Values Across Generations. 5.3. A Philosophical Challenge. 6: Justice as Focus. Bibliography. Index.
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