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THE ETHICAL BASIS OF SUSTAINABILITY

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Alexis J. Bañón Gomis . Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Manuel Guillén Parra . Universidad de Valencia

W. Michael Hoffman . Bentley University

Robert E. McNulty . Bentley University

Summary

The role of business ethics in developing more sustainable societies is crucial. However, we firstly have to review the concept of sustainability itself and its ethical roots. The objective of this work is to rethink the current concept of sustainability by providing it with a sound universalistic ethical rationale. We propose that ethics is the key by which disputes and conflicts among the different rationalities present in the sustainable term (the economic, social, and environmental domains) can and ought to be resolved. This work argues that if we fail to recognize the essential ethical grounding of sustainability, or if we take it for granted, sustainability can easily lose its meaning and sense.

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Review of Corporate Social Responsibility. Edited by Luis Vives Foundation. ISSN: 1989-6417