Environmental Ethics

Catalog description

This course explores ethical questions about humanity's relationship to and responsibilities for the natural world. The class will explore these questions by engaging with theoretical writings that aim to refine contemporary understanding of duties to the natural world, the entities that are the object of these duties (e.g., organisms, species or ecosystems), the meaning of environmental justice, and the relationship between human flourishing and the flourishing of life on earth. This course includes selections from the Western canon.