Generations: And the Challenge of Justice - Softcover

Daniel E. Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761803033 ISBN 13: 9780761803034

Publisher: University Press of America, 1996

Synopsis

Some of the more pressing matters confronting us—as individuals, as communities and as a nation—involve fundamental issues of intergenerational justice. These include caring for aged parents, balancing the rights and well-being of our children with our own rights and well-being, financing Social Security, allocating the costs of our federal budget deficits and our mushrooming national debt, and imposing delayed environmental costs on future generations. Generations develops a theory of intergenerational justice and applies it to these five sets of issues. Since justice between generations will be a reality only if we reach beyond our own age group and affirm the humanity of others, the volume profiles each of the six generations currently living in the United States, drawing upon interviews with members of each generation to give expression to their concerns. The volume concludes with a discussion of the practical difficulties inherent in making justice between generations a reality.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel E. Lee is the Marian Taft Cannon professor in the humanities at Augustana College and director of the Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics. He is author of numerous articles and ten books, including Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761803033
• ISBN 13: 9780761803034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302