The Calling from the Distance. An Ethico-Philosophical and Ethico-Theological Contribution within the Debate on the Responsibility Towards Future Generations from the Perspective of a Phenomenology of Otherness.

正义和对子孙后代的责任等概念已成为中心概念-主题-不仅在当代伦理和政治哲学辩论的较为有限的领域内，而且在公共话语的更深远的领域内。各级（国家机构、跨国治理、媒体、舆论）越来越关注与全球变暖和气候变化、可持续经济增长以及保护遗传和文化遗产有关的问题，证明了这一点。在所有这些辩论中，一个核心问题始终处于紧要关头：我们如何才能不仅为我们的直接继承人，而且为在遥远的未来居住在我们星球上的个人提供一种有价值的生活？然而，从哲学上讲，尽管这似乎有些矛盾，但对后代存在着不可否认的情感和关注这一事实，并不能说明与此相关的对后代承担必要责任的呼吁。换句话说，对未来的生命负责的观念绝不是一个充分的哲学基础。相反，如果你仔细观察，就会发现有几个设计得很好的反论点，声称没有责任。此外，在理论辩论中，一旦考虑到神学的作用，一个共同的观点似乎使问题变得更加严重：事实上，对一些作者来说，正是基督教神学教义/传统应该对减少对未来生命责任的伦理重要性的考虑负责。鉴于这样的哲学和神学困境，我们项目的主要目的是提供一个理论轨迹，这样代际责任不仅不可避免，而且与神学灵感的必要贡献有关。为了展示这样一个系统的框架，我们将在我们的项目中，从另类现象学的角度，对这个问题进行某种重塑，在这个问题中，对未来负责的召唤的动机不仅意味着一种伦理的，而且意味着一种不可简化的神学的超越。

Concepts like justice and responsibility towards future generations have become central notions - leifmotifs - not only within the more restricted realm of the contemporary ethico- and political-philosophical debate, but also in the way farther-reaching domain of public discourse. This is testified by the growing concern at all levels (national institutions, transnational governance, media, public opinion) regarding issues related to global warming and climate change, sustainable economical growth, as well as protection of genetic and cultural inheritances. In all these debates a central question is constantly at stake: how can we provide a life worth being lived not only to our immediate successors but also to individuals who will inhabit our planet in a remote future? Philosophically speaking, however, paradoxical as it may seem, the mere fact that an undeniable sensibility and concern for future generations exist says nothing about the therewith related call for a necessary responsibility towards them. In other words, the perception of being responsible for future beings represents by no means a sufficient philosophical grounding thereof. On the contrary, if one looks attentively, there are several very well designed counter-arguments claiming for a non-responsibility. Furthermore, in the theoretical debate a common view seems to make the problem even stronger, as soon as the role of theology is considered: in fact, for several authors it is exactly the Christian-theological doctrine/tradition the one to be made accountable for a reduced consideration of the ethical importance of a responsibility towards future beings. Given such a philosophical and theological predicament, the main aim of our project is then to offer a theoretical trajectory such that an intergenerational responsibility not only appears as inevitable, but also in connection with the necessary contribution of a theological inspiration. In order to display such a systematic framework we will recur, in our project, to a certain reshaping of the question from the perspective of a phenomenology of alterity, in which the motive of the calling to responsibility for the future will imply not only an ethical but also an irreducibly theological sort of transcendence.