Earth Ethics As Justice Ethics

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This course addresses the unprecedented moral challenge facing humankind in the early 21st century. The challenge is to forge ways of living that Earth can sustain while also building social justice between and among societies. The course engages that challenge through the lens of Christian ethics. The complex intertwining of ecological destruction with racism and economic injustice on local and global scales will be a central focus. Methodological resources include liberation ethics, Earth ethics, inter-faith perspectives, eco-feminist perspectives, and eco-hermeneutics. The informing undercurrent of the course is the quest for hope and moral-spiritual agency in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The course functions as a seminar in which all participants are responsible for leading class discussion of readings.