ABSTRACT
How are our moral responsibilities to present and future generations affected by the possibility of near-term human extinction? And what does the act of imagining such a scenario tell us about our moral intuitions? This chapter critically explores these questions by bringing together two types of enquiry. The first considers the philosophical question of whether doomsday scenarios incentivise or ought to incentivise types of moral behaviour, and what this tells us about ourselves. The second is theological and asks whether there is anything about ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypses that offers an alternative insight into the moral imagination of the end of humanity.
