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Contingent Future Persons : On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future by Nick Fotion (auth.), Nick Fotion, Jan C. Heller (eds.) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed here as the problem of contingent future persons, and as such it poses relatively novel challenges for philosophical and theological ethicists. For though it may be counter-intuitive, it seems that those contingent future persons who are actually brought into existence by such actions cannot benefit fro

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Author

Nick Fotion (auth.), Nick Fotion, Jan C. Heller (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401155663

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25