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What Can I Hope about the Earth’s Future Climate? Affective Resources for Overcoming Intergenerational Distance, Kantian and Otherwise
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Diane Williamson
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April 18, 2015
Abstract
While climate change involves spatial, epistemological, social, and temporal remoteness, each type of distance can be bridged with strategies unique to it that can be borrowed from analogous moral problems. Temporal, or intergenerational, distance may actually be a motivational resource if we look at our natural feelings of hope for the future of the world, via Kant’s theory of political history, and for our children. Kant’s theory of hope also provides some basis for including future generations in a theory of justice.
Published Online: 2015-04-18
Published in Print: 2015-05-01
© 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Symposium: Intergenerational Justice and Natural Resources
- Symposium: Intergenerational Justice and Natural Resources: Introduction
- Historical Responsibility, Harm Prohibition, and Preservation Requirement: Core Practical Convergence on Climate Change
- The Circumstances of Intergenerational Justice
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