{"product_id":"why-worry-about-future-generations-hardcover-1","title":"Why Worry about Future Generations? - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Scheffler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. This has implications for the way we think about problems like climate change. And it means that some of our strongest\u003cbr\u003ereasons for caring about the future of humanity depend not on our moral duty to promote the good but rather on our existing evaluative attachments and on our conservative disposition to preserve and sustain the things that we value. This form of conservatism supports rather than inhibits a concern for future generations, and it is an important component of the complex stance we take toward the temporal dimension of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Scheffler, \u003cem\u003eUniversity Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He works primarily in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value. His writings have addressed central questions in ethical theory, and he has also written on topics as diverse as equality, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, toleration, terrorism, immigration, tradition, and the moral significance of personal relationships. He is the author of five previous books: \u003cem\u003eThe Rejection of Consequentialism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuman Morality\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoundaries and Allegiances\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEquality and Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDeath and the Afterlife\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 26, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47345251942649,"sku":"9780198798989","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Qm12eU40YXFpc3BNOEdoa3cwaU5NQT09_133f762c-e23b-4e0e-83e4-f602659e626f.webp?v=1769742566","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/why-worry-about-future-generations-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}