PHI 240 Environmental Ethics
In this course we look at land ethics as the master discipline for all other environmental ethical concerns. It comes down to anthropocentrism and the importance of non-sentient entities that support life. Three of those things are non-living (air, water, land), but are the conditions for the possibility of (human) life. We will look at the ethical issues of how the environment is the basis for human activity. The reversal of the relationship suggests a very different way to approach the issue. Topics may include world hunger, animal rights, land ethics, climate change, agribusiness, the morality of eating animals, patenting life forms, our obligations to wildlife and the natural world, eco-feminism, and environmental justice.
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