A basic pedagogical research on the responsibility for global future generations in the long term

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In this research, I studied mainly the following three points. First, based on comparison between the UNESCO "Declaration on the Responsibilities of the Present Generations Towards Future Generations" (1997) and Hans Jonas' Future Ethics in his Book "Das Prinzip Verantwortung" (1979), I investigated their concepts and pointed out the difference if justification principles of them, which suggests us what should be called a hierarchy structure of responsibility. In oder to clarify it, I considered the historical development of the concept 'responsibility', and proposed a scheme of responsibility structure. By using the scheme, I showed that the hierarchy referred above is delivered from a difference of responsibility-norms, i.e. underlying value theories. Third, I analyzed a several of justifications of intergenerational justice theory and it criticism from the viewpoint of 'argument', and recognized where intergenerational justice theory has difficulties.