CAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS CORRECTLY BE SAID TO HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
FREDERICKSON, HG
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.2307/976431
发表日期：
1994
页码：
457-464
关键词：
摘要：
Can public officials correctly be said to have obligations to future generations? Issues of intergenerational fairness are all around us. Beginning with the Athenian oath, H. George Frederickson reviews moral, philosophical, and empirical arguments about the obligations of public officials toward future generations. A review of philosophers, both ancient and contemporary, finds general agreement that temporal generations have moral responsibilities toward both their children (near-term future generations) and posterity (future generations through time). Using the compound theory of social equity, the author finds many examples of intergenerational equity in making and implementing of public policy. Finally, he calls for a moral community in public administration that practices both temporal and intergenerational social equity.