Chapter 3 How should we treat our future selves? The moral requirements of prudence to one’s present and future selves
This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choices involving our earlier and later selves, in which the earlier self makes a decision for the later self. The author connects the scientific understandi...
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| description | This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choices involving our earlier and later selves, in which the earlier self makes a decision for the later self. The author connects the scientific understanding of the neurobehavioral processes at the core of individuals’ perceptions of their future selves with the philosophical reflection on individuals’ moral relationship with their future selves. She delineates a descriptive theory of the perception of the future self that is based on empirical evidence and that systematizes and integrates the current theoretical literature. She then argues for the morality of prudence and interprets diachronic self-regarding decisions as decisions between two agents— the earlier and later selves—that belong to the realm of intergenerational ethics, which regulates the relationship between contemporary people and future generations. Finally, the author provides a moral theory of prudence based on respect for one’s agency. This theory identifies what the present and the future selves owe to one another in diachronic self-regarding decisions. Moral Choices for Our Future Selves will be of interest to scholars and students working in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-904702025-07-30T11:55:45Z Chapter 3 How should we treat our future selves? The moral requirements of prudence to one’s present and future selves Viganò, Eleonora A; An; and; Eleonora; Empirical; for; Future; Moral; of; Our; Perception; Prudence; Prudential; Selves; Theory; Vigano thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology This book investigates the relationship between our present and future selves. It focuses specifically on diachronic self-regarding decisions: choices involving our earlier and later selves, in which the earlier self makes a decision for the later self. The author connects the scientific understanding of the neurobehavioral processes at the core of individuals’ perceptions of their future selves with the philosophical reflection on individuals’ moral relationship with their future selves. She delineates a descriptive theory of the perception of the future self that is based on empirical evidence and that systematizes and integrates the current theoretical literature. She then argues for the morality of prudence and interprets diachronic self-regarding decisions as decisions between two agents— the earlier and later selves—that belong to the realm of intergenerational ethics, which regulates the relationship between contemporary people and future generations. Finally, the author provides a moral theory of prudence based on respect for one’s agency. This theory identifies what the present and the future selves owe to one another in diachronic self-regarding decisions. Moral Choices for Our Future Selves will be of interest to scholars and students working in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. 2022-08-03T04:13:11Z 2022-08-03T04:13:11Z 2022-07-22T12:10:36Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57628 9780367634933 9780367640958 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90470 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57628/1/9781003122142-4.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57628/1/9781003122142-4.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003122142-4 10.4324/9781003122142-4 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Moral Choices for Our Future Selves Cogito Foundation 379c9161-d6a1-4ee6-9ecb-38b6126f5b89 9780367634933 9780367640958 Routledge 35 17–117-S open access |
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