Search for dissertations about: "Thomas Scanlon"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Thomas Scanlon.

  2. 1. Why Care About Future People's Environment? : Approaches to Non-Identity in Contractualism and Natural Law

    Author : Jasmina Nedevska Törnqvist; Ludvig Beckman; Johan Tralau; Clare Heyward; Avner de-Shalit; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental duties; intergenerational duties; non-identity problem; contractualism; natural law; person-affecting; impersonal; Derek Parfit; Thomas Scanlon; John Rawls; Thomas Aquinas; John Finnis; institutional non-identity problem; basic values; common good; intergenerational community; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The dissertation analyses the capacity of contractualism and natural law to justify environmental intergenerational duties.For three decades, climate change has been a major political concern. As a fundamental threat to environmental sustainability, climate change is believed to threaten the long-term welfare of humankind. READ MORE

  4. 2. Your Treatment, My Treat? : On Lifestyle-Related Ill Health and Reasonable Responsibilitarianism

    Author : Max Fonseca; Ludvig Beckman; Jouni Reinikainen; Kristin Voigt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; responsibilitarianism; lifestyle; health; distributive justice; contractualism; Thomas Scanlon; luck-egalitarianism; the harshness objection; free will; accountability responsibility; sin-taxes; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : How should the costs of unhealthy lifestyles be distributed between individual citizens and the state? This study approaches this question by investigating the justifiability of the responsibilitarian idea that people who are responsible for their lifestyle-choices should also be held responsible for the costs that these lifestyle-choices generate.Two main conclusions come out of this investigation. READ MORE