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Justice across generationsequality, opportunity, and the social contract /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Justice across generationsby Ryan Reed, Christopher R. Hallenbrook.
Reminder of title:	equality, opportunity, and the social contract /
Author:	Reed, Ryan.
other author:	Hallenbrook, Christopher R.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xi, 177 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	GenerationsMoral and ethical aspects.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07212-2
ISBN:	9783032072122$q(electronic bk.)

Justice across generationsequality, opportunity, and the social contract /
Reed, Ryan.

Justice across generationsequality, opportunity, and the social contract /[electronic resource] :by Ryan Reed, Christopher R. Hallenbrook. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xi, 177 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Political philosophy and public purpose,2524-7158. - Political philosophy and public purpose..

Chapter 1 : What Do We Owe? -- Chapter 2: Constructing a Contractualist Theory of Intergenerational Justice -- Chapter 3: Rising Temperatures, Diminishing Opportunities -- Chapter 4: Do AI Sheep Dream of Electric Social Contracts? -- Chapter 5: No Child Left Behind? -- Chapter 6: Debts to the Future (and the Present) -- Chapter 7: Righting Past Generations'Wrongs -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Intergenerational Justice as Preservation of Opportunities.

This book presents a contractualist theory of intergenerational justice that avoids deficiencies in existing IGJ theories, e.g., the non-identity problem and the under-defining of "generations." The inability of social contract theory to provide a thorough accounting of justice between generations has been called an embarrassment and rightly so. That said, serious attempts have been made from a variety of contract perspectives to rectify the approach's shortcomings in the area of intergenerational justice. One of the most prominent contract theorists, John Rawls, attempted to address justice between generations in his theory via his just savings principle, but both versions of it were met with stinging criticism. As the climate crisis, among other challenges, presses the issue of justice for future generations, the authors believe that intergenerational justice is something that social contract theory should and can address. Specifically, they present a Rawlsian approach that begins with a clarified understanding of what is meant by "generations," and proceeds from there to modify generational knowledge constraints in the original position. The authors then draw upon the concept of indirect reciprocity to round out an argument for a Rawlsian principle of justice between generations: intergenerational fair equality of opportunity. They then apply their intergenerational justice theory to five major public policy areas. Ryan Reed is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bradley University. Christopher R. Hallenbrook is Associate Professor of Political Science and L.G. Chaffee Endowed Chair of Global and Comparative Politics at California State University Dominguez Hills.

ISBN: 9783032072122$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-07212-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1006128
Generations
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LC Class. No.: HM671 / .R44 2025

Dewey Class. No.: 303.372

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