1. Introduction
PART I: Sustainability and Ethics
2. The Meaning of Sustainability
3. The Inherent Ethical Dimension of Sustainability - Toward a Relational Ethical Perspective
4. Limits and Potential of Traditional Moral Philosophy and Current Ethics - Some Arguments For the Need For a New Type of Sustainability Ethics
4.1 The Limits of Utilitarianism and Deontology
4.2 Environmental Ethics and Sustainability Ethics
4.3 Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care: The Ethical Relevance of Relationships
4.4 The Ethical Relevance of Social Structures and Institutions
5. The Challenges of Sustainability Ethics
PART II: Meta-structures and Sustainability
6. Sustainability, Institutions, and Patterns of Thought and Action
7. Meta-structures
7.1 Science As a Meta-structure
7.2 Technology As a Meta-structure
7.3 The Economy As a Meta-structure
7.4 Interrelations Among Meta-structures
8. The Impact of the Web of Meta-structures on the Sustainability Relations
PART III: Toward a New Sustainability Ethics
9. The Relational Dimension of Sustainability Ethics and the Role of Individual Morality
9.1 Ethics of the Human-Nature Relationship
9.2 Ethical Specifics of the Relationship With Future Generations
9.3 Sustainability and the Ethics of the Relationship Between Contemporaries
9.4 An Integrated Ethical Approach to All Sustainability Relations: The Sustainable Person
10. The Structural Dimension of Sustainability Ethics
10.1 An Ethical Critique of the Existing Web of Meta-structures
10.1.1 The Reduction of the Human-Nature Relation
10.1.2 The Reduction of the Relationship with Future Generations
10.1.3 The Reduction of the Relationship Between Contemporaries
10.1.4 Conclusion
10.2 Guidelines for a Redesign of the Meta-structures
10.3 Examples of Internal Structural Change: Biomimicry, Industrial Ecology, and Fair Trade
10.4 Excursus: Rationality, Human Self-identity, and Meta-structures
PART IV: Toward an Encompassing Sustainability Research
11. The Need For a New Type of Sustainability Research
12. Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
12.1 Interdisciplinary Integration of Sciences and Sustainability Ethics
12.2 Transdisciplinary Integration of Research Into the Sustainability Relations
13. Capabilities and Personal Identity of the Researcher
14. The Role of Philosophy for Sustainability Research
15. Conclusion
Index
