PHIL2032 — Environmental Ethics
PHIL 2032 - Environmental Ethics PHIL 2032 - Environmental Ethics Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: Is the environment valuable for itself, or is it valuable because it provides a habitat for humans and animals? What is our duty to the environment? Do animals have rights, and if so why? Do we have a duty to future humans to preserve and protect the environment? Do governments and/or corporations have a duty to preserve the planet? The central idea of this course is the question of the moral relationship between humans and the natural world. Ethical theory will be covered and used to evaluate the possible answers to this question. MnTC Goals MnTC 6 (Humanities), MnTC 10 (people and the enviornment). Major Content 1. Ethical Theory Consequentialism Deontology Virtue Ethics Social Contract Theory Eco Feminism 2. Applied Ethics topics: the course will include some of the following: Animal Rights The impact of farming to raise animals for food Access to natural places vs. preservation of wild places Controversies concerning management of natural areas Eco activism Alternative energy development and production 3. Philosophy Skills Reading original philosophy source material Learning
Prerequisites: ENGL1020, ENGL1021