Research Catalog

Title

Care, uncertainty and intergenerational ethics / Christopher Groves.

Author

Groves, Christopher.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

x, 251 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In an age where issues like climate change and the unintended consequences of technological innovation are high on the ethical and political agenda, questions about the nature and extent of our responsibilities to future generations have never been more important, yet simultaneously so difficult to answer. This book takes a unique approach to the problem by drawing on diverse traditions of thinking about care (including developmental psychology, phenomenology and feminist ethics) to explore the nature and meaning of our relationship with the future. Demonstrating that many influential perspectives on intergenerational ethics, including positions advanced by John Rawls, Brian Barry, and Ulrich Beck are undermined by problems relating to uncertainty, it shows that an approach based on care ethics can confront the uncertain future successfully and give a viable account of the nature and scope of future-oriented responsibilities.

Subject

• Social prediction
• Intergenerational relations
• Forecasting
• Applied ethics
• Responsibility
• Responsibility
• Generationsbeziehung
• Zukunftsethik
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Political science > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART I -- 1. Introduction: Responsibility and Reflexive Uncertainty -- 2. The Limits of Intergenerational Justice -- 3. The Limits of Precaution -- 4. Administrative Imaginaries and Intergenerational Ethics -- PART II -- 5. Care and Uncertain Futures -- 6. Normative Implications of Care -- 7. Towards a Political Morality of Uncertainty -- 8. Horizons of Care.

ISBN

• 0230358845
• 9780230358843
• 1137317558 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137317551 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 898121002
• SCSB-12401703

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Harvard Library