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-Part 1 is the Burden |
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-The aff burden is to prove that we an obligation to future generations, while the neg burden is to prove that we have an obligation not to be concerned with future generations. Prefer it: |
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-1. Analytic |
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-2. Phil Ed: UNC UNC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Why Major in Philosophy?, http://philosophy.unc.edu/undergraduate-program/why-major-in-philosophy. |
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-Having studied these ...you might encounter. |
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-Means the burden precludes any role of the ballot arguments because it provides us with the type of thinking needed to consider marginalized views and critically evaluate current power structures. |
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-3. Topic Lit: Parkins 11 Parkins, John R., and Randolph Haluza-DeLay. Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development. Edmonton: U of Alberta,Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Dept. of Rural Economy, 2011. Rural Economy. Apr. 2011. Web. 9 Sept. 2016. |
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-Philosophers from Plato...to what ends. |
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-We have a duty to not harm people in the future with nuclear that outweighs any obligation relating to energy resources. Taebi 11 |
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-Behnam Taebi, prof of philosophy @ Delft University, “The Morally Desirable Option for Nuclear Power Production” Philos. Technol. (2011) 24. |
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-We could distinguish...will still apply. |
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-Arguments about warming don’t apply - we can’t predict what energy resources will be readily available in the future so we do not know that prohibiting nuclear energy will mean that we do not have enough clean energy in the future. Taebi 2 |
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-Another important distinction...generations it involves. |
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-4. Analytic |
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-Part 2 is Framework |
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-Practical Reason- |
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-2. Rational Inescapability: Externalist standards don’t motivate the agent since the principles are divorced from the agent’s individual reasons to act. Walden Kenneth Walden. “Laws of Nature, Laws of Freedom, and the Social Construction of Normativity” (2012) |
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-But the question...it as an agent. |
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-3.Analytic |
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-Part 3 is Offense |
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-First, the only distinction between present and future obligations is there place in the inter –temporal community. Korsgaard |
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-Korsgaard, Christine. “Morality as Freedom.” Creating a Kingdom of Ends, (p. 162-163). |
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-According to Kant...life adds up. |
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-Second, as finite beings, obligations to future generations are part of willing my own ends. Falkenberg 09 |
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-Falkenberg, Dana. "FINITE LIVES AND INFINITE ENDS: An Account of Imperfect Obligations to Future Generations." Cdr.lib. UNC Chapel Hill, 2009. Web. 15 Sept. 2016. https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:e0a37250-58fc-4c4e-b0c0-cf699fb8b5ec. |
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-What this also ... as rational agents. |
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-Third, even if we don’t know exactly who the future generations will be, we know that they belong to a class of life that has the capacity for reason, which is enough. Godofsky 10 |
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-Jessica Godofsky (student at The College of New Jersey). “FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE RIGHT TO SURVIVAL: A DEONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MORAL OBLIGATIONS OF PRESENT TO FUTURE PEOPLE.” TCNJ Journal of Student Scholarship. April 2010. http://joss.pages.tcnj.edu/files/2012/04/2010-Godofsky.pdf |
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-While the natural ... a moral wrong. |
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-Fourth, Analytic |
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-The non-identity problem assumes that moral obligations have to be directed at particular distinguished persons—this is false. The Lancet OUP. "Moral Obligations." The Lancet 274.7091 (1959): 64. Http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195332957/student/adtlchapter/pdf/Future_Chapter.pdf. Web. 13 Sept. 2016. http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195332957/student/adtlchapter/pdf/Future_Chapter.pdf. |
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-Rather, moral obligations...so clear that |