Sublime

Network of Institutions for Future Generations,

The movement that began about the thirteenth century (I’m not going to get involved in any argument about the exact date) towards the autonomy of man (in which I should include the discovery of the laws by which the world lives and deals with itself in science, social and political matters, art, ethics, and religion) has in our time reached an

because the problem is, when a rule is formulated, the consequences of its universalization, as Kant put it, always have to be considered.

However, when these pleasures and comforts may be affecting the very possibility of the continuity of life on the planet, we need to consider our responsibility toward future generations of human and nonhuman lives.

the discovery of the causal relationship between our efforts today and the quality of tomorrow motivated the social contract—the

The ethic of responsibility is the best answer I know to the meaning and meaningfulness of a life.