Why Worry About Future Generations?

Oxford University Press (2018)
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Why should we care what happens to future generations? Samuel Scheffler argues that we are more invested in the fate of our descendants than we may realize. Implicit in our own attachments are 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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9780198798989   9780198854869   0198798989   0198854862   9780191861802
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Samuel Scheffler
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