Description:
This collection of essays, written by noted scholars and theorists, covers everything from the practical to the theoretical, and investigates the obligations we have to future persons, ranging from our own future offspring to distant future generations.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"This volume is intentionally and wholeheartedly a philosophical book dealing with conceptual analysis (a lot of papers address aspects of 'harm'), the analysis of ethical judgments, meta-ethical questions (the tension between deontology and consequentialism) and the ontology (or semantics) of future and non-existing persons. ... this book is highly recommended for everyone interested in the impact of our actions on future people-not for philosophers only." (Michael Quante, Medicine Health Care & Philosophy, Issue 4, 2010)