ENVR 320 - Environmental Ethics.

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Drury University

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Description:

This course seeks to develop a better understanding of both the factual and ethical dimensions of our current and possible future environments. Explores several contemporary approaches in environmental ethics (including: deep ecology, ecofeminism,animal rights, market efficiencies,the loss of biodiversity and responses from deontological, utilitarian, and virtue ethics, etc.) and representative theoretical problems (e.g., Aldo Leopold's "landethic" vs. natural rights views, ecological holism vs. moral atomism, market efficiency vs. moral obligations, etc.) Using a case-study approach, students then learn to apply different ethical frameworks to several ethical choices occasioned by human interaction with the natural order. Same as PHIL 320. Offered spring semester.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.drury.edu

Phone Number:

(417) 873-7879

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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