Parenting and Intergenerational Justice: Why Collective Obligations Towards Future Generations Take Second Place to Individual Responsibility

Intergenerational Justice Review Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations

Compassion Is a Necessity and an Individual and Collective Responsibility; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

Compassion is a complex process that is innate, determined in part by individual traits, and modulated by a myriad of conscious and unconscious factors, immediate context, social structures and expectations, and organizational “culture.” Compassion is an ethical foundation of healthcare and a widely shared value; it is not an optional luxury in the healing process. While the interrelations betw...

Why Consider Future Generations

This paper explores the question of our responsibility to future generations in the light of our capacity to radically damage their quality of life, if not prevent their very existence. It introduces the concept of active future timescape as part of a strategy to expand our capacity to think about, empathise with, and take active consideration toward future generations. The notion that we have ...

A Moderate Consequentialist Account of our Obligations to Future Generations

Accepting Collective Responsibility for the Future

Existing institutions do not seem well-designed to address paradigmatically global, intergenerational and ecological problems, such as climate change. 1 In particular, they tend to crowd out intergenerational concern, and thereby facilitate a “tyranny of the contemporary” in which successive generations exploit the future to their own advantage in morally indefensible ways (albeit perhaps unint...