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Contingent Future Persons
. Ed(S): Fotion, N.; Heller, Jan C.
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Description for Contingent Future Persons
Hardback. Concerned with how we ought to evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend. This volume explores the theological implications of the problem and advances the investigation of it both in philosophical and in theological terms. Editor(s): Fotion, N.; Heller, Jan C. Series: Theology and Medicine. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
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
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Theology and Medicine
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792347071
SKU
V9780792347071
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99-15
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