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Intergenerational justice asks what present people owe those who come later. Rawls’s just-savings argument concerns sustaining just institutions without imposing unlimited burdens on poorer generations.
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Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 84
What do we owe beyond the present human world?
Leopold, Rawls and Simpson give different reasons for obligations to land, to future generations and within particular relationships. The lesson keeps present needs, and the question of who has authority to decide, in view.