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Contingent Future Persons
. Ed(S): Fotion, N.; Heller, Jan C.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Fotion, N.; Heller, Jan C. Series: Theology and Medicine. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 371.
How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for philosophical and theological ethicists. For though it may be counter-intuitive, it seems that those contingent future persons who are actually brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit from or be harmed by these actions in any conventional sense of the terms. This intriguing problem was defined almost three decades ago by ... Read more
How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for philosophical and theological ethicists. For though it may be counter-intuitive, it seems that those contingent future persons who are actually brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit from or be harmed by these actions in any conventional sense of the terms. This intriguing problem was defined almost three decades ago by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Theology and Medicine
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401063456
SKU
V9789401063456
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