Reciprocidad y solidaridad intergeneracional en el pensamiento de Jesús Ballesteros

This work is based on the thesis that the two pillars underpinning Ballesteros’s approach to intergenerational justice are reciprocity in parent-child relationships and solidarity on environmental issues, with a profound logical connection existing between these two requirements, grounded in an anthropological conception that is unwaveringly humanist, unequivocally universal, non-individualist and open to the long term. This anthropological foundation lends profound coherence to Ballesteros’s legal and political philosophy as a whole, and in particular to his treatment of intergenerational justice, in which he always prioritises the protection of the weakest.