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Prospettive attuali di giustizia intergenerazionale: rinuncia o ripresa prasseologica?
Migliucci, Martina
2025
Abstract
Drawing on some recent phenomenology-based theories of intergenerational justice, this paper aims at underscoring how the dominant presentist tendency within the debate tackles the norma-tive issue of the future by merely depicting it as a continuation or extension of the present. The inability of the major philosophical theories to genuinely justify a responsibility toward future generations stems from specific factors embedded within the very premises of their arguments. Such a shortcoming is very well shown by Ferdinando Menga’s important deconstructive analyses devoted to critically investigating the contractualist, utilitarian, and natural law approaches. Yet, notwithstanding Menga’s phenomenological contribution on the matter, my conclusion will part ways from his mainstay. In what follows I will show, in fact, that his theory does not deliver a convincing motivating force as able to aptly legitimate present generations to take concrete ethical, political and also legal actions for the safeguarding of future generations. A brief concluding section will display how a good candidate to overcoming short-termism in intergenerational ethics and law can be represented by Hans Lindahl’s theory of asymmetric recognition.
Source
Martina Migliucci, "Prospettive attuali di giustizia intergenerazionale: rinuncia o ripresa prasseologica?" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2025) XXVII/1", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 155-184
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it
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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