The ethics of future persons, contractualism and directed duties

未来人的道德、契约主义和定向责任

• 批准号: 459736377
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Kirsten Meyer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Philosophie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/459736377?language=en
• 关键词: ethics; future; persons; contractualism; directed

This project inquires whether we have directed duties towards future persons and whether moral contractualism can provide a satisfactory theoretical foundation of such duties. Moral contractualism understands morality as a hypothetical agreement between reasoning agents in a relation of mutual recognition. Acts are morally wrong if the principles allowing the act can be reasonably rejected as a basis for general agreement. Is moral contractualism well suited to account for the claims of future people? Does it provide a solution to the non-identity problem? Is it necessary to search for an alternative justification of directed duties, or even to drop the assumption that we have directed duties towards future persons? What implications does this entail for the content of our moral obligations towards future persons?

该项目询问我们是否已将职责指向未来的人，以及道德合同主义是否可以为这种职责提供令人满意的理论基础。道德合同主义将道德理解为在相互认可之间的推理剂之间的假设一致性。如果允许该法案的原则可以合理拒绝作为一般协议的基础，那么在道德上是错误的。道德合同主义是否适合解释未来人的主张？它是否为非身份问题提供了解决方案？是否有必要寻找有指示职责的替代理由，甚至需要放弃我们对未来人的责任的假设？这对我们对未来人的道德义务的内容有什么影响？