Philosophy 1020 Lecture 20: Lecture 20 (Dec 3) Broome on Justice and Climate Change
18 Dec 2015
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One answer is suggested by okin"s description of the subject matter of justice. Theories of justice are centrally concerned with whether, how and why persons should be treated differently from each other. To the extent that climate change raises questions about future generations people who do not yet exist it raises okin"s question. Broome has a second answer: climate change engages duties of justice rather than (or perhaps as well as) duties of goodness. The question(s) of duties of justice owed to future generations.
