Limits to Growth and the Philosophy of Life-Centred Economics

Abstract

Abstract Arguing for a sustainability turn, I point out that it requires motivations that are more powerful than material ones. As the 95 Theses of the Budapest Centre for Long-term Sustainability indicated, sustainability requires a comprehensive, life-centered, community-centered and Nature-centered worldview, and the scientific and philosophical conditions are now ripe for it. I introduce the all-comprehensive Principle of Life that enables well-informed rational decision-making, completes materialism by a balanced and more inclusive worldview, aligns it with the Principle of Life and the Principle of Reason, and enables us to align our decision-making with the requirements of long-term sustainable development. Video Abstract Read the transcript Watch the video on Vimeo © 2022 Taylor&Francis Group, LLC