Philosophy 256 - Environmental Ethics

Institution:

Bard College

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Environmental Studies, Human Rights, Social Policy, STS An exploration of ethical issues regarding the relation of human beings to their environment. The class looks at several far-reaching critiques of the anthropocentric character of traditional moral paradigms by deep ecologists, ecofeminists, social ecologists, ecotheologians, and others who argue in different ways for fundamentally new accounts of the moral standing of nature and the ethical duties of humans to nonhuman creatures and things. A study of contemporary authors and debates is prefaced with a review of their precedents and origins in such 19th-century writers as E. P. Evans, John Muir, Henry Salt, and Henry David Thoreau, and such early 20th-century writers as Rachel Carson, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Aldo Leopold. Throughout the discussion attention is paid to the implications for social policy, legal practice, and political action.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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