Meta-ethics

Normative ethics

Development ethics - emerged as a field of study 1950s on

Development ethics - applied - identify, consider, make ethical choices about societal development, and in identifying and assessing the explicit and implicit ethical theories. Gasper

Development ethics key issues - social and human rights, poverty reduction, gap between rich and poor, international intervention

Environmental ethics - emerged as a separate field of study during the 1970s

Starting point - belief that we are facing a critical point in our relationship with the non-human world, to avert or reverse an ecological crisis we needs to reasses the ways in which value the NHW

Environmental philosophers have made many and varied suggestions as to which alternative frameworks we should use for valuing nature

Dev and Env combined eg climate change. Interest to both areas of ethics - Env- impact on species and sustain human communities. Dev - Global impact of consumption patterns and fair distribution of resources.

Env often seen as an issue only to be addressed when the going is good. Only after more important issues such as crime, schooling and poverty. SDGs have strengthened the interconnections.

Entwined - Today issues of environmental protection and social development have become entwined, often under the umbrella of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Justify - we must be sure that we can justify WHY we prefer one way of viewing the world or the judgement of one another's actions before they are enshrined in policy and imposed on others.