Threshold Conceptions of Harm and Non-Identity: Sketching a Sufficientarian Proposal
This article defends the distinct yet related ideas that future individuals can be harmed, that they have rights, and that we have correlative obligations towards those individuals. I argue that two of the main ideas usually considered to disallow the possibility of harm to future generations – the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2023
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Ethical perspectives
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-130 |
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| Summary: | This article defends the distinct yet related ideas that future individuals can be harmed, that they have rights, and that we have correlative obligations towards those individuals. I argue that two of the main ideas usually considered to disallow the possibility of harm to future generations – the non-identity problem and the absence of reciprocity between non-overlapping generations – share a similar structure and should be replaced by subject-centered approaches. I then present one of the dominant ways of circumventing the non-identity problem introduced recently in the literature, the threshold conception of harm proposed by Meyer. Finally, I sketch a sufficientarian proposal that incorporates this threshold conception of harm. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1431 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical perspectives
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/EP.30.2.3292663 |