Various Systems of Values in Sustainable Development

The elements of culture considered in this work are fundamental to our understanding of culture and civilization. The foundations of culture and civilization are education, tasks, aims and priorities. Science, technology and the arts (which are occupied with values that are the results of absolute or universal values) and religious systems create culture or civilizations which favour both humans and nature. Sustainable development and a civilization of love (proposed in its final form by Pope John Paul II as the civilization of peace and life) should be built by considering the following concepts: peace, solidarity, justice, freedom, truth and love. These demand a change in the paradigm of human development as it relates to civilization and culture: away from the paradigms of war and death and towards those of peace and life.