Intercultural Philosophy and Environmental Justice between Generations

Hiroshi Abe is Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto University, Japan. He received the Philipp Franz von Siebold Prize 2017. He has published extensively on the topics of ontology, environmental philosophy, and Japanese philosophy. He co-edited Environmental Philosophy and East Asia: Nature Time Responsibility (Routledge, 2022) with Matthias Fritsch and Mario Wenning. Matthias Fritsch is Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Canada. His previous publications include The Promise of Memory (State University of New York Press, 2005) and Taking Turns with the Earth (Stanford University Press, 2018), as well as the edited volumes Environmental Philosophy and East Asia (Routledge 2022), Eco-Deconstruction (Fordham UP, 2018) and Reason and Emancipation (Humanity Press, 2007). Mario Wenning is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Andalusia, Spain. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes The Right to Resist: Philosophies of Dissent (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Environmental Philosophy and East Asia (Routledge 2022). He has been a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt and is a recipient of the Dao Annual Best Essay Award.

Introduction: why approach intergenerational justice from intercultural philosophy Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch and Mario Wenning; Part I. Indigenous Philosophies on Justice Between Generations: 1. Indigenous philosophy and intergenerational justice Krushil Watene; 2. Climate ethics and intergenerational reciprocity in indigenous philosophies Matthias Fritsch; 3. Intergenerational justice and the environment in Africa Workineh Kelbessa; 4. Reasonabilism, homeostasis and intergenerational justice in African thought Joseph Agbakoba; Part II. Intergenerational Ethics in Dialogue with Confucianism and Daoism: 5. Ghosts and intergenerational justice: a Confucian perspective Yat-hung Leung and Mario Wenning; 6. Intergenerational ethics and sustainability: a Confucian relational perspective Marion Hourdequin; 7. Moral motivation for future generations, naturally: a Mencian proposal Jing Hu; 8. Transience, responsible transformation and deep time in Daoist thought James Miller; Part III. Humanity Facing the Near Environmental Future: 9. Double intergenerational responsibility: from a west-eastern view Hiroshi Abe; 10. Guidelines for a global constitutional convention for future generations Stephen Gardiner; 11. Philosophy for an ending world.