Moral Choices for Our Future Selves: An Empirical Theory of Prudential Perception and a Moral Theory of Prudence Vigan Eleonora
Moral Choices for Our Future Selves: An Empirical Theory of Prudential Perception and a Moral Theory of Prudence Vigan Eleonora This book investigates the relationship between our present and future…
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Moral Choices for Our Future Selves: An Empirical Theory of Prudential Perception and a Moral Theory of Prudence Vigan Eleonora
This book investigates the relationship between our present and 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. 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 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,