TY - BOOK ID - 6950123 TI - Justice to future generations and the environment PY - 1999 VL - 40 SN - 0792357566 9048152402 9401591032 9780792357568 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Jurisprudence KW - Environmental justice KW - Rawls, John, KW - Law KW - Eco-justice KW - Environmental justice movement KW - Global environmental justice KW - Environmental policy KW - Environmentalism KW - Social justice KW - Philosophy KW - Rawls, John KW - Environmental justice. KW - Jurisprudence. KW - Ethics. KW - Political science. KW - Environmental law. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Constitutional law. KW - Philosophy of Law. KW - Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. KW - Constitutional Law. KW - Constitutional law KW - Constitutional limitations KW - Constitutionalism KW - Constitutions KW - Limitations, Constitutional KW - Public law KW - Administrative law KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Environment law KW - Sustainable development KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Values KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Government policy KW - Law and legislation KW - Rawls, John, - 1921-2002 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6950123 AB - The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls' theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the existential and cultural context of our intuitions about intergenerational equity. Although the desire for justice supplies an independent reason for action, the unprecedented character of the context in which that reason must operate necessarily raises the question of its psychological support: we want justice for future people, but what interest do we have in their welfare in the first place? I have tried to capture this double orientation by making use of Thomas Nagel's conceptual dichotomy between the objective, detached point of view, and the subjective (in our case: the cuturally and historically situated) perspective. There is, on the one hand, a desire for justice that tends towards the definition of transhistorical standards, detached from the particular values ofthe time and place; there is, on the other hand, a motivational background that is tied to our present position in history, and nourished by the values we presently believe in. I have attempted to bridge the gap between the one and the other dimension by different conceptual avenues, the principal one being a time-related interpretation of Rawls' concept of equal liberty: justice wants us to maintain the worth of liberty over time by perpetuating the conditions of its meaningful exercise. ER -