PHIL226

PHIL

226

Philosophy, Ethics and the Environment

This course centers on ethical issues surrounding consumption, both of food and fuel. We examine the environmental and moral implications of our agricultural practices, factory farming, and energy use and production with particular attention to climate change. We will examine foundational questions in environmental ethics concerning the value and moral standing of elements of the environment, including wide-ranging questions about human beings' proper relationship with the natural environment and with non-human forms of life, as well as our relationships with one another. 4 SH. CC: Ethics.

Standard (STAND), Ethics (ETHCS)