PHIL320 - Environmental Ethics

Course Code: PHIL320 Course ID: 3542 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Undergraduate

This course is a study of environmental issues from a moral and philosophical approach. Issues raised in the course include the moral obligation, or lack thereof, to preserve and protect the environment, the ethical presumptions that underlie environmental policy, the traditional theories of moral philosophy applicable to contemporary environmental problems, and the potential for a new conception of the relationship between humanity and nature.