Essays about: "Elizabeth Bushby"

Found 1 essay containing the words Elizabeth Bushby.

  1. 1. Towards a Coherent Sustainability Ethics : A study on the meaning and moral underpinnings in Sustainability and their relation to consequential and deontological perspectives

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Bushby; [2017]
    Keywords : Sustainability; ethics; Nussbaum; Singer; climate change; environment; social justice; development; intergenerational justice; distributive justice; utilitarianism; deontology; capabilities approach; ecology; global ethics;

    Abstract : The idea of writing this essay begun as an attempt to enter into the current discussion about the theory and ethics of sustainability. The essay aims to compare the meaning of sustainability with two ethical theories that are currently used in developmental and environmental issues, namely the theories of Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer, and see how coherent these theories are with the concept of sustainability. READ MORE