31/05/2018
CPP lezing van Douglas MacLean 31 mei
Douglas MacLean geeft vanmiddag om een lezing getiteld "Climate Change Ethics: Complicity and Accountability". Zijn abstract luidt: "Climate change is a unique ethical problem. The individual actions of virtually everyone in the world contributes to climate change, which might cause great harm, especially in the future. In this sense, we are all complicit. In most cases, if one is complicit in causing a harm, then one can be held accountable: one deserves blame or punishment; one is legitimately a subject of reactive attitudes; or owes compensation. I argue that individuals are not accountable in these senses for their complicity in causing climate change. Rather, our moral accountability flows directly to our political and collective responsibility. A typical (morally decent) person living in a developed, carbon-based society, has no moral obligation to change the way they live; but we all have strong moral duties to pressure our governments (and large corporations and institutions) to enact effective policies to strongly limit carbon emissions." Wees allen welkom!
The Center for Political Philosophy in Leiden is pleased to announce a talk by Douglas MacLean (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Abstract Climate change is a unique ethical problem. The individual actions of virtually everyone in the world contributes to climate change, which might cause great