From Environmental Ethics to Sustainability Ethics

Hong Du

doi:10.35784/preko.6834

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Published: Jan 10, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35784/preko.6834

Issue Vol. 20 No. 1 (2025)

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From Environmental Ethics to Sustainability Ethics
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271-287
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310-328

DOI

https://doi.org/10.35784/preko.6834

Authors

Hong Du

h.du@foxmail.com

Chongqing Normal University, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8999-9788

Abstract

Contemporary environmental ethics is confronted with a dual dilemma, namely the tension between theoretical and practical considerations. In response, scholars have pursued a variety of avenues, with the practice-oriented approach emerging as the dominant trend. The practice of environmental ethics can be analyzed according to two paradigms: the applied ethics paradigm and the practical ethics paradigm. Both paradigms suggest the possibility of a certain kind of sustainability ethics, namely the development of traditional environmental ethics into a public, applied sustainability ethics. In other words, the advancement of traditional environmental ethics, which is theoretically superior, into a form of public and applied sustainability ethics may prove an effective means of addressing the current challenges facing environmental ethics.

Keywords:

environmental ethics, practice-oriented approach, applied ethics paradigm, practical ethics paradigm, sustainability ethics

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