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.

像正义和对后代的责任这样的概念已经成为核心概念--主题--不仅在当代伦理和政治哲学辩论中受到更多限制，而且在更深远的公共话语领域也是如此。各级(国家机构、跨国治理、媒体、舆论)对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的日益关注就证明了这一点。在所有这些辩论中，一个核心问题始终岌岌可危：我们如何不仅为我们的直接继任者，而且为将在遥远的未来居住在我们星球上的个人提供值得过的生活？然而，从哲学上讲，尽管这看起来可能有些自相矛盾，但仅仅存在一种对子孙后代的不可否认的情感和关心这一事实，并不能说明与之相关的对他们负有必要责任的呼声。换句话说，认为对未来的存在负责的看法绝不代表其充分的哲学基础。相反，如果仔细观察，就会发现有几种非常精心设计的反驳理由，声称不承担责任。此外，在理论辩论中，只要考虑到神学的作用，一个共同的观点似乎就会使这个问题变得更加严重：事实上，对于一些作者来说，恰恰是基督教神学教义/传统需要对减少对未来存在的责任的伦理重要性的考虑负责。考虑到这样的哲学和神学困境，我们项目的主要目标是提供一个理论轨迹，使代际责任不仅看起来是不可避免的，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，从交替的现象学的角度对这个问题进行一定的重塑，在这个现象学中，对未来负责的呼唤的动机不仅意味着一种伦理，而且还意味着一种不可还原的神学类型的超越。

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.