Original scientific paper

The Moral Foundation of a Sustenance Principle Supported by an Overlapping-Model Based on Individual Interest

Andreas Kött ; Saarbrücken, Germany

Abstract

The central problem of actual ecologically-ethical discussion is the range of a moral community. In the focus of the ecologically-ethical debate – beside the issue of a moral status of an embryo, on one level, and that of a non-human living being, on the other- is the notion of sustenance. Sustenance in a general sense represents the way of acting which provides circumstances sufficient to enable future generations to have a contented life. Therefore, sustenance is the principle of political and economic realization of intergenerational justice.

Keywords

moral community; sustenance principle; overlapping-model

Hrčak ID:

37135

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37135

Publication date:

13.2.2009.

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