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Lecturer(s)
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Vendra Maria Cristina Clorinda, Mgr. PhD.
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Course content
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Part I ? Theories 1 Introduction: environmental ethics, singular or plural? 2 Anthropocentrism 3 Biocentrism 4 Ecocentrism 5 Deep Ecology Part II ? Teleological and Deontological Perspectives 6 Environmental virtue ethics 7 Environmental virtues and vices 8 Environmental justice 9 Environmental rights Part III ? Contemporary Practical Problems 10 Population and environment 11 Sustainability 12 Biodiversity 13 Food production and consumption 14 Recapitulation: Environmental Ethics for the future
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Environmental ethics can be defined as the discipline that studies the relations between human beings as moral agents and the natural environment as their earthly home. It considers, then, the norms that can and do govern our interactions with the natural world, that is, with the four Earth systems: lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. These systems includes both inanimate and animate nonhuman components. As an academic discipline, environmental ethics emerged in the early 1970s in a social context marked by many liberation movements. The field of environmental ethics is in constant evolution as confronted to new environmental, social, technical, and political challenges. Environmental ethics studies the value and the moral status not just of human beings, but of the environment itself and its non-human contents.
The course will discuss the most relevant theorical and practical reflections in the field of environmental ethics. Specifically, it will identify the main currents of principled positions in environmental ethics, it will focus on classical teleological and deontological moral philosophy as offering conceptual frameworks for environmental ethics, and it will consider some current environmental ethical issues. The course will provide students with knowledge about the ethical positions taken in environmental ethics and with the skills and categories to identify and articulate answers to environmental ethical problems.
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Prerequisites
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English Language (B2 ? C1)
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Evaluations of students in this course will be based on: (1) participation, which includes active discussion in class, attendance (80 %), class assignments (readings). In case of absence, the student has to communicate it and to ask the professor for any assignments or key discussions concerning the missed lesson. (2) A final paper (1500-2500 words). Additional information will be provided at the beginning of the course.
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Recommended literature
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