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Climate Change and Moral Responsibility toward Future Generations: A Confucian Perspective
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 71, Number 2, April 2021
- pp. 451-472
- 10.1353/pew.2021.0028
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Abstract:
Climate change challenges the harm-based justification of intergenerational responsibilities. Alternatively, this article provides a virtue-based account grounded in Confucian ethics. According to the virtue of Shengsheng, the intergenerational responsibility is justified in terms of enabling future generations to cultivate their innate virtue in a ceaseless life-generating natural world.