What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future?

Intergenerational Justice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Birnbacher, Dieter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Future generations; Indirect motivation; Moral motivation; Responsibility; Selfbinding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865179707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282951.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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