Lukas H Meyer

Biographic Data

ID3909049
NAMELukas H Meyer
GIVEN NAMESLukas H
FAMILY NAMEMeyer
SIGNATUREMEYER L H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Graz
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS71
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Basic Needs and Sufficiency

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Intergenerationa…2022

    This chapter addresses a theory of intergenerational justice that is referred to as needs-based sufficientarianism. According to needs-based sufficientarianism, the present generation ought to enable future generations to meet their basic needs—for example, their needs for drinkable water, food, and healthcare. The authors’ aim is to explain and defend this theory in a programmatic way. First, they introduce what they regard as the most plausible…

  • Rectifying Historical Injustice

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.BOOKRectifying Historical Injustice2022

  • Superseding historical injustice? New critical assessments

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.ARTICLECritical Review of International…2022Cited by: 3References: 2

    This article proposes that debates over historical injustice and Jeremy Waldron’s supersession thesis are helpfully framed by distinguishing between (a) the abstract supersession thesis proper, (b) the temporal orientation of justice, (c) various conceptions of supersession, and (d) arguments against using supersession discourse. This introduction and contributors to this volume advance the debate by discussing Waldron’s later, less examined writ…

  • Climate Justice and Historical Emissions

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.EDITORBOOKClimate Justice and Historical…2017

  • Enough for the Future

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.CHAPTERIntergenerational Justice2017

    This chapter discusses intergenerational justice by distinguishing between sufficientarian and egalitarian conceptions of justice. A strictly egalitarian position by which understands a position that holds equality to be of intrinsic value is open to the so-called levelling- down-objection. As explained, the position of weak sufficientarianism can be understood as a qualified priority view. The position of strong sufficientarianism, however, can …

  • Intergenerational Justice

    Lukas H MeyerEDITORBOOKIntergenerational justice2017

  • Philosophy of Justice

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Social Justice Theory…2016

  • Democracy, Equality, and Justice

    Matt Matravers, Lukas H Meyer et al.BOOKDemocracy, Equality, and Justice2015

    1. Introduction: Democracy, Equality, and Justice Matt Matravers and Lukas H. Meyer Justice and Democracy 2. Representing Future Generations: Political Presentism and Democratic Trusteeship Dennis F. Thompson 3. Justice, Legitimacy, and Constitutional Rights Wilfried Hinsch Justice and Quality 4. Why Equality? On Justifying Liberal Egalitarianism Paul Kelly 5. Luck, Equality and Responsibility Keith Dowding 6. Coercive Redistribution and Public A…

  • How legitimate expectations matter in climate justice

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.ARTICLEPolitics Philosophy & Economics2014Cited by: 29References: 4

    Expectations play an important role in how people plan their lives and pursue their projects. People living in highly industrialized countries share a way of life that comes with high levels of emissions. Their expectations to be able to continue their projects imply their holding expectations to similarly high future levels of personal emissions. We argue that the frustration or undermining of these expectations would cause them significant harm…

  • Individual Expectations and Climate Justice

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.ARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2011

    Many people living in highly industrialised countries and elsewhere emit greenhouse gases at a certain high level as a by-product of their activities, and they expect to be able to continue to emit at that level. This level is far above the just per capita level. We investigate whether that expectation is legitimate and permissible. We argue that the expectation is epistemically legitimate. Given certain assumptions, we can also think of it as po…

  • Climate justice and historical emissions

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.ARTICLECritical Review of International…2010Cited by: 26References: 3

    Climate change can be interpreted as a unique case of historical injustice involving issues of both intergenerational and global justice. We split the issue into two separate questions. First, how should emission rights be distributed? Second, who should come up for the costs of coping with climate change? We regard the first question as being an issue of pure distributive justice and argue on prioritarian grounds that the developing world should…

  • Intergenerational justice

    Lukas Meyer, Axel Gosseries et al.EDITORBOOKIntergenerational justice2009

    Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on them through constitutional constraints? From combating climate change to ensuring proper funding for future pensions, concerns about ethics between generations are everywhere. Sixteen philosophers present new explorations of intergenerational justice. - ;Is it fair to leave the next generation a public debt? Is it defensible to impose legal rules on …

  • Enough for the Future

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.CHAPTERIntergenerational justice2009

    Reflecting the normative significance of specific features of intergenerational relations this chapter investigates the justice claims of future people vis-à-vis currently living people. It discusses sufficientarian and egalitarian conceptions of justice, and argues that a sufficientarian approach is appropriate in the intergenerational context. This conclusion is based, first, on the argument that by relying on a threshold conception of harm we …

  • Legitimacy, Justice and Public International Law

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H MeyerEDITORBOOKLegitimacy, Justice and Public…2009

    Do states or individuals stand under duties of international justice to people who live elsewhere and to other states? How are we to assess the legitimacy of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Security Council? Should we support reforms of international institutions and how should we go about assessing alternative proposals of such reforms? The book brings together leading scholars of public …

  • Reparations and Symbolic Restitution

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H MeyerARTICLEJournal of Social Philosophy2006

  • Distributive Justice and Climate Change. The Allocation of Emission Rights

    Open AccessLaurence H Meyer, Lukas H Meyer et al.ARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2006Cited by: 6References: 3

    The emission of greenhouse gases causes climate change. Therefore, many support a global cap on emissions. How then should the emissions allowed under this cap be distributed? We first show that above average past emissions cannot be used to justify a right to above average current emissions. We then sketch three basic principles of distributive justice (egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and sufficientarianism) and argue, first, that prioritarian …

  • Rights, Culture and the Law

    Lukas H Meyer, Stanley L Paulson et al.EDITORBOOKRights, culture, and the law2003

    This book brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism. It raises questions concerning Raz's notion of group rights and its application to claims of cultural and political autonomy, and examines his theory of multicultu…

  • Rights, culture, and the law

    Lukas H Meyer, Stanley L Paulson et al.BOOKRights, culture, and the law2003

    This volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, group rights and multiculturalism.

  • Past and Future

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H MeyerCHAPTERRights, culture, and the law2003

    Liberal cosmopolitans often take the view that currently living people, wherever they may live, and future people, whenever their lives take place, have, qua human beings, the same moral status. Cosmopolitans are inclined to deny the relevance of the special features of our relations to future people. Liberal cosmopolitans also commonly take the view that currently living people cannot be said to have claims to compensation because their predeces…

  • Obligations persistantes et réparation symbolique

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H MeyerARTICLERevue Philosophique de Louvain2003

    H. Meyer Lukas, Gosseries Axel. Obligations persistantes et réparation symbolique. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 101, n°1, 2003. pp. 105-122

  • Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Moral Motivation

    Laurence H Meyer, Lukas H MeyerARTICLEGlobal Society2000Cited by: 7