Environmental Ethics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The moral issues raised by our relationship with the natural environment are among the most important moral issues of our day. Taking seriously our responsibilities to the environment has the potential to radically transform the way we can justifiably live our lives (both individually and collectively). At stake are our diets, consumer behavior, energy use and sources, procreative choices, etc., and with no exaggeration our very sources of identity and meaning. But thinking through the territory and how it fits within broader moral theory is notoriously difficult. This will be our task in Phil. 444.