ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transdisciplinary humanistic sustainability theory, which has been developed in greater detail elsewhere. Epistemologically, it is necessary to distinguish between theoretical, normative and instrumental rationality. The entire present theoretical approach thus results in a parallelization of ethical and human rights-interpretative statements. Such terms as justice, law, politics, constitution, governance, or anthropology/social theory require and receive clarification, as do the forms of normative and descriptive research used in the present sustainability perspective. The normative theory of justice should not be confused with the descriptive study of the anthropology/social theory concept of human-kind. In order to ascertain concrete, normative criteria for sustainability, a new ethical and legal interpretation of human rights designed to overcome a primarily economically oriented concept of freedom, but also, conversely, to prevent the threatening abolition of freedom. The existing state of sustainability governance shows a spotty picture in terms of administrative law, information policy, state subsidies.
