PHI 224 - Environmental Ethics (1)

Moral dilemmas associated with human populations, industrial productivity, a deteriorating environment, and generally, our treatment of the natural world. We will examine the role our conception of ourselves and our relation to the non-human world plays in our exploitation of the environment and its degradation. We will consider alternatives to traditional “anthropocentric” ethics and discuss the possibility of living in ways consistent with both the protection of the environment and the well-being of all things of moral worth. Alternate years.
(Humanities)