Titlebook: Care, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics; Christopher Groves Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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Administrative Imaginaries and Intergenerational Ethicss generally also reflect assumptions of this kind — even if, in the construction of theories, intuitions are subjected to critical scrutiny. ‘In this sense every form of ethics also contains a metaethics, or a system of presuppositions (whether or not these are made explicit) about how moral judgeme

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Care and Uncertain Futurester is the element in which fish swim. This is a phenomenological, rather than metaphysical, characterisation of experience and its contents. In other words, insofar as things appear to us as phenomena, their salience and meaning are given to us against a background of uncertainty — in relation both

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Towards a Political Morality of Uncertaintye ethical significance of any future span of time beyond that related to the specific attachments about which we do happen to care, even if these give us no reason to care about the future beyond the limit of our own lifespans? Is all future-oriented care equally morally praiseworthy? If connectedne

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. 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.978-1-349-34761-2978-1-137-31755-1

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The Limits of Precautionentre of concepts of responsibility. At the same time, the sheer success of industrialised technological innovation in transforming the world renders foresight inadequate to the task of anticipating the unforeseeable consequences of innovation in either the short- or — especially — the long term. Th