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The Establishment and Status of a Principle of Sustainable Development

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze the formation process of sustainable development as a new ethical and social principle and to determine its status. The starting point is to demonstrate that there are different catalogs of ethical and social principles in Catholic social thought. Their diversity and dynamics points to the existence of the premises upon which official bodies of the social thought of the Catholic Church along with specialists in theoretical reflection, interpret and formulate new ethical and social principles. The article discusses the process of emergence of new ethical and social principles, which in the history of the Catholic social teaching has already many times revealed a regularity that the reflection of professionals dealing with Catholic social thought sometimes precede the social teaching of the hierarchical Church and inspires to formulate new statements. In this context, an attempt has been undertaken to reconstruct the stages and circumstances of forming a new ethical and social principle of sustainable development and to demonstrate what its status is on the grounds of Catholic social thought.

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