Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy
Abstract
In this article, our focus is on the topic of engagement and possibility of empathy with future generations. We acknowledge that empathy for future generations is practically unattainable in its strictest sense due to the lack of access to their potential mental states and the absence of direct interaction. Additionally, we will draw upon the arguments presented by Goldie and Slaby to address concerns regarding the potential paternalization that may arise in empathic relations towards future generations. However, despite these limitations, it is important to emphasize that we are still engaged with future generations. Instead of adopting a paternalizing approach where we impose expectations on how they should feel, our engagement exposes us to the anticipated but unknown judgments of future generations. Throughout this article, we will argue that engagement with future generations brings out our own social self-consciousness and provides a basis of our connectedness and responsibility ...towards future generations.
Keywords:
engagement / empathy / future generations / social self-consciousnessSource:
Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2024, 43, 1Publisher:
- Springer
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- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200025 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Phylosophy and Social Theory) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200025)
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-024-10009-yhttp://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3762
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Cvejić, Igor AU - Plećaš, Tamara AU - Bojanić, Petar PY - 2024 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-024-10009-y UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3762 AB - In this article, our focus is on the topic of engagement and possibility of empathy with future generations. We acknowledge that empathy for future generations is practically unattainable in its strictest sense due to the lack of access to their potential mental states and the absence of direct interaction. Additionally, we will draw upon the arguments presented by Goldie and Slaby to address concerns regarding the potential paternalization that may arise in empathic relations towards future generations. However, despite these limitations, it is important to emphasize that we are still engaged with future generations. Instead of adopting a paternalizing approach where we impose expectations on how they should feel, our engagement exposes us to the anticipated but unknown judgments of future generations. Throughout this article, we will argue that engagement with future generations brings out our own social self-consciousness and provides a basis of our connectedness and responsibility towards future generations. PB - Springer T2 - Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy T1 - Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy IS - 1 VL - 43 DO - 10.1007/s11245-024-10009-y ER -
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Cvejić, I., Plećaš, T.,& Bojanić, P.. (2024). Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy. in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Springer., 43(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10009-y
Cvejić I, Plećaš T, Bojanić P. Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy. in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy. 2024;43(1). doi:10.1007/s11245-024-10009-y .
Cvejić, Igor, Plećaš, Tamara, Bojanić, Petar, "Engagement with Future Generations: Unfulfilled Empathy" in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 43, no. 1 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10009-y . .