Abstract: The future can be divided into spans that mark out periods which significantly differ in kind:the politically enfranchised future and the politically unenfranchised future.The former is such a period in which future interests are given serious political consideration in the present and its length will depend on the kind of future interests are similar in nature.They are all self-regarding,or verynearly so.The political unenfranchised future is a foreign world beyond our reach.The future interests of that world are for us other-regarding interests,or soat first it must seem They may inter our moral rather than our prudential assessments and concern for the interests of the political unenfranchised future may be typically moral.

Key words: the future, futrure interest, present, concerns

摘要： 对未来可作这样的区分:一是在政治上有资格考虑的未来,二是那些在政治上无资格考虑的未来。前一段时期的长度取决于实际上对现在的政治决策施以影响的那种未来利益。这些未来利益的性质与我们现在的利益的性质很相近,都是一种关涉到自己的利益。政治上无资格考虑的未来则是一个在我们所及的世界之外的世界,那个世界中的利益对我们来说是一个他者考虑的利益。然而,政治上无资格考虑的未来利益应进入我们的道德考虑而不是深谋远虑的评价之中,对政治上无资格考虑的未来利益的关注典型地是道德层面的事情。

关键词: 未来, 未来利益, 当下关注