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222 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
“Indeed, there is something approaching a conceptual connection between valuing something and wanting it to be sustained and preserved.”
“Rather than looming simply as a blank entity of nonexistence, the future can be conceptualized with reference to an ongoing social world in which one retains a social identity.”
“My point is that despite the power of [self-preserving and self-interested] attitudes, there is a very specific sense in which our own survival is less important to us than the survival of the human race.”