The Weight of The Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23723482 |
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| Authors | Richard Pettigrew (0000-0003-0822-4300), Richard M Pettigrew (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 162-183 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Choosing for Changing Selves (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198814962.003.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W3001506729 |
| ISBN | 9780198814962 |
| Language | EN |
This chapter asks whether it is ever required or even permissible to give some weight to the values of your past selves. It argues that sometimes, when a past self has made a sacrifice that benefits the current self, it is at least permissible and sometimes required to give weight to the permissible values of that past self. To do this, the chapter introduces a principle descended from H. L. A. Hart’s (1955, ‘Are there any natural rights?’ Philosophical Review, 64) Principle of Mutual Restriction and John Rawls’s (1975, A Theory of Justice) Principle of Fairness.
Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Law and economics · Natural (archaeology) · Natural law · Political science · Sacrifice · Sociology · Theology · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Highly cited | No |
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