TY - JOUR
T1 - Amplified Solidarity with Future Generations
AU - Gómez-Franco, Irene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the author.
PY - 2024/1/17
Y1 - 2024/1/17
N2 - A recent trend in bioethics has highlighted the decisive role that solidarity plays in global health. However, given the impact and extent of the effects of climate change, which reach beyond present generations, it is important to consider whether this concept can be applied intergenerationally. Does it make sense to talk about solidarity with future generations? The objective of this article is to explore ‘amplified solidarity’, a new concept of solidarity that explains our obligations towards the health and quality of life of future generations. The analysis of this concept is structured as follows: I first establish the moral relevance of future people and then investigate the traits of amplified solidarity, its challenges, and its relationship with other key principles. I propose that amplified solidarity needs both a critical imagination to be projected towards the future and an institutional framework to correct health injustices across an intergenerational timescale. Solidarity forms a potent triangular constellation with responsibility and justice to fight against global and intergenerational injustices.
AB - A recent trend in bioethics has highlighted the decisive role that solidarity plays in global health. However, given the impact and extent of the effects of climate change, which reach beyond present generations, it is important to consider whether this concept can be applied intergenerationally. Does it make sense to talk about solidarity with future generations? The objective of this article is to explore ‘amplified solidarity’, a new concept of solidarity that explains our obligations towards the health and quality of life of future generations. The analysis of this concept is structured as follows: I first establish the moral relevance of future people and then investigate the traits of amplified solidarity, its challenges, and its relationship with other key principles. I propose that amplified solidarity needs both a critical imagination to be projected towards the future and an institutional framework to correct health injustices across an intergenerational timescale. Solidarity forms a potent triangular constellation with responsibility and justice to fight against global and intergenerational injustices.
KW - solidarity; intergenerational justice; future generations; bioethics; climate change; global health
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1f36a604-31c8-354a-8b15-5f1efd5b1b80/
U2 - 10.3390/philosophies9010017
DO - 10.3390/philosophies9010017
M3 - Article
SN - 2409-9287
VL - 9
JO - Philosophies
JF - Philosophies
IS - 1
M1 - 17
ER -