Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations - Hardcover

Mulgan, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019928220X ISBN 13: 9780199282203

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006

Synopsis

A striking new account of the basis of our obligations to future generations that links individual morality, political philosophy, and international justice.

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Review

The discussion is lively, incisive and provocative and will make an enduring contribution. Certainly anyone interested in consequentialism or moral status of future persons will learn a great deal from this fascinating and extremely worthwhile book. (M. A. Roberts, Mind Journal)

What we owe to our own children, to the children of others, to our descendants, to the descendants of others, to future distant generations in our community, and to the future distant generation of distant others is a question few moral theories fully address. This glaring oversight is finally remedied by Tim Mulgan's Future People, an in-depth analysis of our obligations to future people, and the implications this analysis has for the plausibility of moral theories. Mulgan's extremely clear style makes Future People accessible and enjoyable. This book...should be read by all who take moral interest in others (and even more so by those who don't).... Mulgan has written a timely and important book of incredibly impressive scope and interest. He argues in favor of highly reasonable reproductive rules and his intriguing book will no doubt be of great value to this neglected area of ethics. (Rivka Weinberg, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

About the Author

Tim Mulgan is Professor of Moral & Political Philosophy at the University of St Andrews

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019928220X
• ISBN 13: 9780199282203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396