Ethics of Sustainable Development from the View of A. Badiou’s Critique of Contemporary Ethics
Andrzej Papuziński
Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Wydział Humanistyczny, Instytut Nauk Politycznych, ul. ks. J. Poniatowskiego 12, 85-671 Bydgoszcz, Poland (Poland)
Abstract
The main problem of that article is effectiveness / ineffectiveness of an axiological system of the sustainable development as the base of a program of activities taken in individual and social-political scale. The problem was presented from the view of Alain Badiou’s ethics, which is a trial of overcoming weaknesses of the contemporary ethics of the mainstream, especially very low effectiveness of the ethics in the sphere of social practice. For developing the title problem there was applied the critique of contemporary ethics as the ethics of consensus, conducted by Badiou. Established research prospect has a limited application. It allows exclusively and only for drawing a conclusions in the matter of possible usability of the ethics of sustainable development in the activities leading to the change of dominant stereotypes of thinking and standards of conduct nowadays. From the point of view of Badiou’s ethics this is the first, but necessary step on the way to answer a following question – does the ethic of sustainable development have actual causative power and is it effective in initiating and performing social changes?
Keywords:
ethics, practical effectiveness of ethics, sustainable development, BadiouReferences
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Andrzej PapuzińskiUniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego, Wydział Humanistyczny, Instytut Nauk Politycznych, ul. ks. J. Poniatowskiego 12, 85-671 Bydgoszcz, Poland Poland
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