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Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development
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Edited by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Preface by:
Pope Francis
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English
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2022
About this book
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and he has been an advisor to three UN secretaries-general.
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo is a Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Vescovio, Italy, and former chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences.
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University.
William Vendley is secretary general emeritus of Religions for Peace International and vice president and senior advisor for religion at the Fetzer Institute.
Anthony Annett is a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University and senior adviser at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Jesse Thorson is program manager at the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo is a Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Vescovio, Italy, and former chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences.
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and codirector of the Center for Comparative Philosophy at Duke University.
William Vendley is secretary general emeritus of Religions for Peace International and vice president and senior advisor for religion at the Fetzer Institute.
Anthony Annett is a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University and senior adviser at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Jesse Thorson is program manager at the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
Reviews
Philip J. Ivanhoe, author of Oneness: East Asian Conceptions of Virtue, Happiness, and How We Are All Connected:
I came away from this book with a lot of new information and ideas but also a sense of relief: maybe it isn't too late; maybe humanity and much of the other life on the planet is not irrevocably lost and without hope. Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development brings together a broad coalition of authors from disparate disciplines and shows how all of their work is connected to the pressing need to address environmental degradation.
I came away from this book with a lot of new information and ideas but also a sense of relief: maybe it isn't too late; maybe humanity and much of the other life on the planet is not irrevocably lost and without hope. Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development brings together a broad coalition of authors from disparate disciplines and shows how all of their work is connected to the pressing need to address environmental degradation.
Ban Ki-moon, former secretary-general of the United Nations:
In Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development, religious leaders of many faiths and scholars of many disciplines address the ethics of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their message is timely and hopeful: the world’s great religious and ethical traditions share the common commitment to end poverty, assure social justice, and achieve environmental sustainability. The world can indeed come together to build the Future We Want.
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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INTRODUCTION: JEFFREY D. SACHS AND OWEN FLANAGAN
1 - PART I ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD Shared Virtues and Visions of Well-Being
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CHAPTER 1 THE VISION AND VALUES OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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CHAPTER 2 A SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO MAKE THE LAST FIRST
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CHAPTER 3 VIRTUES ACROSS TRADITIONS Common Ground?
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CHAPTER 4 SECULAR ETHICS, MORAL CAPITAL, AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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CHAPTER 5 THE CURRENT RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IN THE CIVIL ECONOMY PARADIGM
72 - PART II RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND THE COMMON GOOD
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CHAPTER 6 THE CONFUCIAN CONCEPTION OF THE COMMON GOOD IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
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CHAPTER 7 HINDUISM “Consider the common good in all actions”
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CHAPTER 8 JUDAISM AND THE COMMON GOOD
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CHAPTER 9 BUDDHISM AND THE COMMON GOOD
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CHAPTER 10 GREEK ORTHODOXY AND THE COMMON GOOD
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CHAPTER 11 CATHOLICISM AND THE COMMON GOOD
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CHAPTER 12 ISLAM AND THE COMMON GOOD
136 - PART III AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Poverty
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ETHICS IN ACTION TO END POVERTY Consensus Statement
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CHAPTER 13 THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL POVERTY
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CHAPTER 14 ETHICAL ACTIONS TO END POVERTY
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CHAPTER 15 COMMUNITY-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION
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CHAPTER 16 JUDAISM AND POVERTY
173 - PART IV AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Peace
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ETHICS IN ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT ON PEACE Consensus Statement
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CHAPTER 17 ON PEACE AND A MORAL FRAMEWORK FOR STATECRAFT
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CHAPTER 18 ADVANCING SHARED WELL-BEING AS A MULTIRELIGIOUS VISION OF POSITIVE PEACE
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CHAPTER 19 BUILDING PEACE Strategies, Resources, and Religions
215 - PART V AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Migration
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ETHICS IN ACTION Statement on Migration
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CHAPTER 20 THE DRIVERS OF MIGRATION
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CHAPTER 21 A MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE ON REFUGEES
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CHAPTER 22 MIGRATION AND REFUGEES A Christian Perspective
238 - PART VI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development
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ETHICS IN ACTION Businesses as Agents of Sustainable Development
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CHAPTER 23 TOWARD A LAUDATO SI’ COHERENT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY MANAGEMENT
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CHAPTER 24 SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT AND ETHICS IN ACTION
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CHAPTER 25 THE CASE FOR BUSINESS IN ACHIEVING THE SDGs
266 - PART VII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Education
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DECLARATION OF THE ETHICS IN ACTION MEETING ON EDUCATION
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CHAPTER 26 THE CHALLENGE OF EDUCATION
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CHAPTER 27 WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MEET THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL FOR EDUCATION?
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CHAPTER 28 “ONLY CONNECT” Neuroscience, Technology, and Global Literacy
289 - PART VIII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Climate Justice
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ETHICS IN ACTION Climate Justice
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CHAPTER 29 CLIMATE DISRUPTION A Personal Journey Into the Ethical and Moral Issues
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CHAPTER 30 THE RELIGIOUS CASE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CARE
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CHAPTER 31 HEALTH JUSTICE IS CLIMATE JUSTICE
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CHAPTER 32 ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE How Treaties Undermine the Right to a Healthy Environment
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CHAPTER 33 ETHICS IN ACTION AND DIVESTMENT
327 - PART IX AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking, and Access to Justice for the Poor and Vulnerable
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ETHICS IN ACTION ON MODERN SLAVERY, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE POOR AND VULNERABLE
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CHAPTER 34 ACTUALIZING JUSTICE FOR THE POOR
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CHAPTER 35 MULTIRELIGIOUS ACTION AGAINST MODERN SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING
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CHAPTER 36 VIOLENCE AGAINST THE POOR AND ETHICS IN ACTION
360 - PART X AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Indigenous Peoples
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DECLARATION BY ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE SDGS AND THE MAGISTERIUM OF POPE FRANCIS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
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CHAPTER 37 CARE OF THE EARTH, CARE OF THE SOUL Indigenous Communities and Inner Climate Change
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CHAPTER 38 PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND TRADITIONAL POPULATIONS OF THE AMAZON
380 - PART XI AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Corruption
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ETHICS IN ACTION ON CORRUPTION Consensus Statement
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CHAPTER 39 UNDERSTANDING AND COMBATTING CORRUPTION
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CHAPTER 40 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION
400 - PART XII AN ETHICAL CONSENSUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The Future of Work
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ETHICS IN ACTION ON THE FUTURE OF WORK
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CHAPTER 41 UNIONS AND THE FUTURE OF WORK
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CHAPTER 42 THE COMING AI REVOLUTION Is This Time Different?
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CHAPTER 43 SLOW BUT SURE Cooperatives and Integral Ecology
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CHAPTER 44 THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT A Muslim Perspective
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CONCLUSION Toward a Moral Economy
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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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November 16, 2022
eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
sustainable development; sustainability; climate change; comparative religion; religious studies; ethics; poverty; environmental justice; the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals; Religions for Peace; Ethics in Action; Pope Francis
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Professional and scholarly;
