PHIL 3320 - Environmental Ethics

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): 3 hours of Philosophy or junior standing, or instructor consent.
Local and world-wide environmental problems make understanding how to relate to the natural world of crucial practical importance. This course explores the conditions for moral judgment when interests such as employment and production conflict with environmental issues. Its topics include ancient, traditional, and modern adjudications of the appropriate relation between human persons and nature. Course readings and discussion aim at using philosophical strategies to generate an ethics suitable for organic life.