[Pre-remark: I have only lightly skimmed the post]
Just wanted to add a pointer to Tim Mulgan’s book Ethics for a Broken World -- given the similarity in framing: “Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind...Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. ….This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. ”
[Pre-remark: I have only lightly skimmed the post]
Just wanted to add a pointer to Tim Mulgan’s book Ethics for a Broken World -- given the similarity in framing: “Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind...Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. ….This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. ”