Fuzzy Ethics

We need to know what sustainability is, before it can be achieved. How must sustainability be defined? Fuzzy Ethics describes a new moral criterion which locates ethics in the physical world and, based on it, proposes a new definition of sustainability that generalizes concepts from engineering, physics, and ethics.
This book has two main parts. The first conducts a dialogue in order to establish the operative definitions (for example: order; and effort) needed to increase the rigor of argumentation; ethical framework; and moral criterion to follow. The second sees a final reflection isolating one by one, the main sentences on which the previous dialogue is based. Here the key points that the reader must interrogate in order to find any flaws in the theory are detailed. The final part links ethics and sustainability, and reveals how the finitude of humankind leads to fuzziness.

Efrén M. Benavides is a Professor at the School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. He specialises in theories of sustainable design, mechanical design, reciprocating engines and propulsion systems with research work in the field of aeronautics. Efrén has written books and numerous articles about these subjects in a variety of scholarly journals and scientific literature. This is his first book with TrueHeart Press.

Dialogue about life and common sense; Discovering concern; On common sense; On disorder and unhappiness. The natural order; On the possibility of the natural order as a link; On the existence of a universal categorical imperative; On the importance of objectives and dialogue in the imperative; On whether or not to act; On the importance of the attributes of the imperative; On whether or not the imperative leads to forgiveness and overcoming. The need for social structures; On whether to listen to the heart or the mind; The universal categorical imperative; On whether or not the universal categorical imperative makes the person using it virtuous; On restraint in the use of resources. The professions; On the need for an appetite; On the difficulties with using the universal categorical imperative; On the scope of the universal categorical imperative; Farewell; Reflections of an excursionist; Additional content (change; society; universality; the Universe; love); Sustainability