Ethical Aspects of the Theory of 'Green Economy'

摘要

The origins, possibility, and necessity of combining an ethical approach and economic theory being researched using the example of the modern theory of the "green economy". The historical development of the ethical understanding of theoretical and economic issues in the works of prominent economists of the XIX - XX centuries, as well as the possibilities and prospects of its use in the present, is traced. The interrelation between the concept of sustainable development and ethics is traced, the specificity of scientific areas of the "green" economy within the framework of sustainable development of the economy is determined. The concept of the ecological imperative, as a fundamental principle of the theory of the "green economy", being researched, the possibility of applying the ecological imperative as the basis for the formation of a new social ideology, ethics, and morality is explained. The specificity of biocentric and anthropocentric approaches in the development of ethics from the point of view of their application in the theory of "green economy" is considered.