Abstract:

Global ecological crises have brought the concept of sustainability to the fore. However, nowadays, sustainability is used not only to express an ecological situation but also any state of continuity. This shows that the concept of sustainability cannot change from one context or perspective to another without completely losing its meaning. The ontology of the concept of sustainability expresses the responsibility for future generations as well as the responsibility for the present generations. For this reason, ensuring and maintaining sustainability can be considered an indispensable ethical condition. In order to ensure sustainability, conceptual complexities must first be resolved, and ethical approaches must be in the right context. It is impossible to achieve sustainability without ethics. For this reason, this study aims to reveal the reasons for the contradiction of the concept for the sustainability of sustainability and to discuss ethical approaches within this framework. The study is important in that it shows various perspectives on what should be done for the sustainability of sustainability. Sustainability should be evaluated with a holistic approach not only in terms of ecological but also psychosocial and economic aspects. In the study, a hermeneutic, critical and relational approach was adopted, and an analysis of the sustainability-ethics relationship was made with a literature review. As Kant points out, with the transition from action utilitarianism to rule utilitarianism, internalizing ethical values and reflecting a sense of responsibility in all life areas will entrench sustainability.

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