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What do we owe future people and the more-than-human world?

Use delayed ecological damage, choices that change who will exist, and low-probability technological catastrophe to compare moral community, time, identity, and responsibility.

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  1. 11949Leopold — From conqueror to member of the land community

    Aldo Leopold · A Sand County Almanac: The Land Ethic

    How does development change if soils, waters, plants, and animals are fellow members of a community rather than mere property?

    Leopold's land ethic extends the boundary of the ethical community to soils, waters, plants, and animals—collectively, the land.

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    • Environmental Ethics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.1 Deep Ecology and early environmental ethics; Leopold’s land ethic

      Open source

    His holistic language emphasizes the integrity, stability, and beauty of biotic communities but does not supply a complete procedure for conflicts with individual animal welfare.

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    • Environmental Ethics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.1–§2.3, land ethic, holism, and objections

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    1. The posthumous A Sand County Almanac recasts humans as members, not conquerors, of the land community.

      1949

  2. 21979Jonas — Greater power of action expands responsibility for the future

    Hans Jonas · The Imperative of Responsibility

    When effects are global, long-term, and irreversible, is an ethics designed for nearby contemporaries sufficient?

    Jonas argues that modern technology changes the scale and temporal reach of action, making nature and the continued existence of humanity objects of ethical responsibility.

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    • Philosophy of Technology

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §3.3 Ethical and Political Critiques of Technology; Jonas and responsibility

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    His imperative requires present technological action to remain compatible with continued genuine human life and gives prevention special weight under catastrophic uncertainty.

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    • Philosophy of Technology

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §3.3, The Imperative of Responsibility and future-oriented ethics

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    1. The Imperative of Responsibility extends technological ethics to future people and planetary conditions.

      1979

  3. 31993Plumwood — Human/nature dualism and the logic of domination

    Val Plumwood · Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

    If human/nature, reason/body, and male/female hierarchies reinforce one logic of domination, can environmental problems be solved by resource management alone?

    Plumwood analyzes the human/nature dualism as linked to other hierarchies through backgrounding, radical exclusion, instrumentalism, and related structures.

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    • Feminist Environmental Philosophy

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2.2 Feminist environmental philosophy and conceptual frameworks; Plumwood on dualism

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    Her alternative does not erase difference into identity; it calls for non-dominating relations that acknowledge dependency and the other's agency.

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    • Feminist Environmental Philosophy

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §3.2 Ecofeminist philosophical perspectives; relationality and anti-domination

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    1. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature analyzes ecological destruction through conceptual structures linked to gendered, embodied, and colonial domination.

      1993

  4. 41984Parfit — Can we harm future people whose existence depends on our choice?

    Derek Parfit · Reasons and Persons

    If a better policy would have meant that this person never existed, can the present policy be said to make that person worse off?

    The nonidentity problem arises when different long-term policies cause different people to exist, frustrating a purely person-affecting account of harm as making someone worse off than otherwise.

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    • The Nonidentity Problem

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §1 The Problem; policy and future-person cases

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    There is no consensus on criticizing choices that create people with worthwhile but worse lives; proposals appeal to rights, thresholds, non-comparative harm, or impersonal principles.

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    • The Nonidentity Problem

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2–§4, proposed solutions and remaining problems

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    1. Published in Oxford, Reasons and Persons makes future identity and population ethics central philosophical problems.

      1984 · Oxford · 출판