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ISBN 10:  9004161775

ISBN 13: 978-9004161771

Author: Barbara Adam, Chris Groves 

Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications. It locates contemporary approaches to the future in a wider sociological and historical framework of practices, traces differences and continuities, and shows how contemporary practices of futures-construction make taking responsibility for futures all but impossible.

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Concepts of the Future (Adam & Groves, 2007)

1. Abstract Future

• The future is seen as predictable and governed by natural, unchanging laws.

• Rooted in Newtonian science, it treats the future as a continuation of the past through mathematical regularities.

• Citation: Adam & Groves, 2007, p. 193

2. Empty Future

• The future is perceived as void and open, shaped only by human actions.

• Reflects a mindset where the future exists to be filled by present interests.

• An example: the belief in unlimited economic growth as a core societal goal.

• Citation: Adam & Groves, 2007, p. 195

3. Living Future

• Emphasizes evolutionary potential and interconnected transformation.

• The future is neither fully determined nor fully open—it emerges through interaction and relational change.

• A collective, participatory view of what the future becomes.

• Citation: Adam & Groves, 2007, p. 198

4. Timeprint

• Analogy to “ecological footprint,” but applies to temporal impact.

• Highlights how present actions can consume or limit future possibilities far beyond what current ethical frameworks or institutions can manage.

• A call for deeper temporal responsibility.

• Citation: Adam & Groves, 2007, p. 203

5. Lived Future

• The subjective experience of future possibilities in human and nonhuman life.

• Encompasses emotional, imaginative, and cognitive engagement with the future.

• Reflects how organisms adapt to change and shape their environments.

• Citation: Adam & Groves, 2007, p. 198

Philosophical References on Responsibility and Autonomy

6. On Responsibility

• For varied conceptions of responsibility, see:
  Ingarden (1970), pp. 5–34

7. On Autonomy and Rule-Following

• Immanuel Kant established the foundational link between autonomy and adherence to moral law.
  Kant (1993), pp. 40–41

• Roderick Chisholm emphasizes autonomy as the capacity to choose to act.
  Chisholm (1966), pp. 30–44

• Christine Korsgaard connects autonomy to human dignity.
  Korsgaard (1996)

8. On the Heuristics of Fear and Authoritarianism

• Richard Wolin critiques Hans Jonas’s turn toward fear-based ethics, warning that it can justify antidemocratic or authoritarian solutions.
  Wolin (2001), chap. 5

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