Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics [electronic resource] /
Groves, C.author.
Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful. Yet our ability to foresee the consequences of what we do has not kept pace. Is the idea that we have responsibilities to future generations therefore meaningful? This book argues that it is, with the aid of a unique reading of the care ethics tradition.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Part I; 1 Introduction: Responsibility and Reflexive Uncertainty; Overview; Constructing uncertainty; The ubiquity of 'risk thinking'; Reflexive uncertainty and ignorance; Conclusion; 2 The Limits of Intergenerational Justice; Introduction: the birth of a problem; Subjective and objective utilitarianism; The 'standard economic view'; Needs and justice; Problems in common; Rawls: primary goods; Barry: productive capacity; Reciprocity and non-identity; Rawls and the problem of reciprocity; Alternative arguments from rights; Conclusion
3 The Limits of PrecautionIntroduction; Beck's analysis of reflexive uncertainty; The precautionary principle and 'actually existing' risk society; The limits of Beck's cosmopolitanism and precaution; Conclusion; 4 Administrative Imaginaries and Intergenerational Ethics; Introduction; Shared imaginaries; On whose behalf?; Managing the future; Conclusion; Part II; 5 Care and uncertain futures; Introduction; Defining care; Phenomenology: care as disclosure and temporal horizon; Feminism: care as disposition and as practice; The objects of care; On attachment and the secure space
Widening the secure spaceThe role of narrative; Conclusion: care and time; 6 Normative Implications of Care; Introduction: reviewing the argument; Some objections to a care perspective; Realising constitutive values; Responsibilities to care for future worlds; Conclusion; 7 Towards a Political Morality of Uncertainty; Introduction; From circles of attachment to expanded horizons of care; Care and ethical life; From care as ethical life to a polit ical morality of care; Conclusion; 8 Horizons of Care; Introduction; Reconsidering care and reflexive uncertainty; Engineering the Anthropocene
Engineering the climateAlternative stories: from management to care; Conclusion: three images of futuring; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Our capacity to reshape the future has never been more powerful. Yet our ability to foresee the consequences of what we do has not kept pace. Is the idea that we have responsibilities to future generations therefore meaningful? This book argues that it is, with the aid of a unique reading of the care ethics tradition.
Political philosophy.
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