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Dr. Rafael Ziegler<br />
4010009 Vorlesung <strong>zu</strong>r Praktischen Philosophie (Angewandten Ethik):<br />
Sustainability and Sustainable development<br />
Di 8-10 Uhr, 2-st, HS Soldmannstr. 23<br />
The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Br<strong>und</strong>tland<br />
Commission, famously defines sustainable development as development that meets the<br />
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own<br />
needs. But sustainable development has also been adopted and appropriated by many<br />
social actors from grassroots movement, and local communities to corporations, political<br />
parties and states. As a result, sustainable development has become a buzzword, used and<br />
abused, much criticised, and yet somehow unavoidable.<br />
The lecture addresses from an ethical perspective the discourse of sustainability and<br />
sustainable development. Sustainability and sustainable development are contested<br />
concepts that on a vague level foster discussion on major challenges of our age and that on<br />
close conception lead to more specific positions in philosophy: 1) Responsibility for future<br />
generations and the question of justice between generations, 2) affluence and (extreme)<br />
poverty and the question of global and intra-generational justice, 3) the role of human beings<br />
in the environment and their responsibility for animals, species and the natural environment.<br />
Accordingly, the lectures introduce ethical approaches with which to think about these<br />
questions, including Kantian-Rawlsian, utilitarian, communitarian and neo-Aristotelian<br />
perspectives. The lecture also addresses critical perspectives on sustainability and<br />
sustainable development, such as the Foucault inspired critique of sustainable development.<br />
In a final step, the lecture turns to the role of these ethical considerations in sustainability<br />
science (or science for sustainable development) more generally, and with it the role of<br />
ethics in applied sustainability contexts such as climate, freshwater and forest policies.<br />
A reader will be made available at the beginning of the semester.<br />
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