Abstract
Abstract The aim of the book is twofold: (1) to develop a comprehensive, contractualist theory of intergenerational ethics, and (2) to argue that contractualism’s ability to be that comprehensive theory of intergenerational ethics contributes to its plausibility as a moral theory in general. The introduction sets out the criteria that a ‘comprehensive theory of intergenerational ethics’ needs to meet, including the ‘scope’ and ‘content’ questions, the disanalogous properties between the intra- and intergenerational contexts, and two paradoxes in population ethics that a comprehensive theory of intergenerational ethics will need to resolve (the non-identity problem and the problem of optimal population size).
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