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Die Idee eines intergenerationellen Libertarismus

  • Peter Rinderle
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 15. Mai 2012
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Abstract

The contents and foundations of intergenerational justice have only recently become the focus of controversial debates in political philosophy. My main purpose in this essay is to outline the idea of an intergenerational libertarianism and contrast it with a skeptical rejection of the moral rights of future persons by contractarians on the one hand and egalitarian conceptions of intergenerational justice by utilitarians on the other. As far as its contents are concerned, the idea contains three main principles: future persons have a moral right to satisfy their basic needs, they have a moral right to develop and exercise their capacity of political and personal autonomy, and they have a moral right to be compensated for harmful actions by their predecessors. And as far as its foundations are concerned, these principles can be justified by a contractualist procedure: considerations of sufficiency, of liberty and of reciprocity cannot reasonably be rejected by either members of future generations or by members of the present one.

Published Online: 2012-05-15
Published in Print: 2012-05

© by Akademie Verlag, Tübingen, Germany

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