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Approaches to ethics
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                      12 June 2023
 

This chapter describes the field of ethics and surveys the three main schools of thought in contemporary ethics: utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. The main tenets of each theory are explained, with particular attention paid to how they might be applied to issues in agricultural and environmental ethics.
          TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable agriculture, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Agricultural science, Agronomy and crop production, Social and ethical issues
              
            - 1 Introduction
 - 2 Utilitarianism
 - 3 Deontology
 - 4 Virtue ethics
 - 5 Competing theories or an ethical toolkit?
 - 6 Conclusion
 - 7 Where to look for further information
 - 8 References