A good ancestor
| dc.contributor.author | Dlamini, Hector | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-14T07:01:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-14T07:01:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In The Good Ancestor, Roman Krznaric presents a compelling argument about our responsibility to future generations. He highlights that in order to be good ancestors to the future generations we need to make a shift from short-term thinking, shorttermism, to long-term thinking, long-termism. He notes that most of our decisions have been usurped by short-termism without any regard for their effect in the long term, a term whose horizon is centuries, millennia or even multiple generations in the future. There is also a six-pronged prescription of how we can overcome the grip of short-termism and begin to think long-term. These six aspects of the prescription are: deep-time humility, legacy mindset, intergenerational justice, cathedral thinking, holistic forecasting, and transcendent goal (242). | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/9 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dlamini, H. (2022). A good ancestor. Acta Academica, 54(1), 144-147. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/9 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2415-0479 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/11955 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Author(s) | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Commentary | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | The Good Ancestor | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Roman Krznaric | en_ZA |
| dc.title | A good ancestor | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |