A Critical Review of the Fourth Worldviews of Agricultural Ethics Based on the Perspective of Wendell Berry
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Background: Despite that has passed decades from sustainability issues, but we are still seeing that farmers misuse the sources of production, and agricultural policies do not fit with the environmental capacity of regions and being brilliant of the term self-sufficiency in among agricultural development policies. It seems all the levers so far have been used to achieve sustainability so should and maybe have not been successful. So, today scientists are hoping to ethical strategies more than other strategies to achieve sustainability and solving environmental challenges. Therefore, in this study, various worldviews of agricultural ethics have reviewed and criticized. As regards today there are the sustainability stress in all fields especially environment and agriculture, and on the other hand human and its ethical dimension are the most important structures in the development process and the necessity to pay attention to the subject of agricultural ethics, the present study aims to identify and critique the most important theoretical worldviews about agricultural ethics and providing solutions for sustainability in the agriculture sector and the environment. Critical analysis of worldviews has been done within the framework of Wendell Berry perspective, which shows moral and immoral boundary and identifies appropriate ethical norms.
Conclusion: Based on the analysis, holism worldviews is the best criteria for choosing and taking decisions in the field of agriculture and environment. The results of this study could be the solution to the problems of planners and politicians in the field of agriculture and environment in order to achieve sustainability.
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Keywords: Agricultural ethics, Worldview, Production, Sustainable development |
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Special Received: 2020/01/31 | Accepted: 2020/01/31 | Published: 2020/01/31
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