Author: Avner De-Shalit
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: environmental, generations, philosophies, future, policies, matters, posterity
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1995-04-24
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415100194
ISBN-13: 9780415100199

Why Posterity Matters is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of our duties to future generations. It appears at a time when it is becoming increasingly obvious that we can no longer exploit the environment without causing risks for posterity.Dr de-Shalit argues that our obligations towards new generations are a matter of justice, not of charity or supererogation. It becomes our duty to consider them when we distribute access to natural resources, decide on environmental policies and plan budgets. This raises problems for conventional theories of justice. Why Posterity Matters put

Authors:Corinne P. Earnest, Russell D. Earnest,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: german, pennsylvania, tradition, publications, society, fraktur, family, posterity, latest, registers
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0271023686
ISBN-13: 9780271023687

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the colorful world of Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.Renowned authorities on fraktur, Russell and Corinne Earnest trace the evolution of decorative family registers from their roots in medieval European illuminated manuscripts to thei