TY - JOUR
T1 - Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap?
T2 - A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity
AU - Gheaus, Anca
AU - Meijers, Tim
PY - 2025/1/20
Y1 - 2025/1/20
N2 - Axel Gosseries considers, and partly defends, several strategies to address the non-identity problem (NIP). We engage critically with two strategies endorsed by Gosseries: the severance strategy and the overlap strategy. The latter comprises two different sub-strategies: the containment sub-strategy and the indirect sub-strategy. We believe that severance is less promising than Gosseries suggests. It comes at a high theoretical cost, which is important to acknowledge even if, ultimately, there is reason to pay it. The sub-strategies that comprise the overlap strategy are more promising, and they can justify more in terms of the scope and content of inter-generational justice than Gosseries suggests in his book. Endorsing the overlap strategies is attractive because doing so limits the need for impersonal considerations in theories of inter-generational justice.
AB - Axel Gosseries considers, and partly defends, several strategies to address the non-identity problem (NIP). We engage critically with two strategies endorsed by Gosseries: the severance strategy and the overlap strategy. The latter comprises two different sub-strategies: the containment sub-strategy and the indirect sub-strategy. We believe that severance is less promising than Gosseries suggests. It comes at a high theoretical cost, which is important to acknowledge even if, ultimately, there is reason to pay it. The sub-strategies that comprise the overlap strategy are more promising, and they can justify more in terms of the scope and content of inter-generational justice than Gosseries suggests in his book. Endorsing the overlap strategies is attractive because doing so limits the need for impersonal considerations in theories of inter-generational justice.
KW - Arguments from overlap
KW - Equality
KW - Future generations
KW - Inter-generational justice
KW - Non-identity problem
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U2 - 10.1007/s11158-024-09701-y
DO - 10.1007/s11158-024-09701-y
M3 - Article
SN - 1356-4765
JO - Res Publica
JF - Res Publica
ER -