Ethics and Environmental Justice

(2.5-3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Through a normative focus of ethics and political philosophy, the course introduces some of the most important modern problems and debates associated with the animal world, nature, and our link with the non-human world. Throughout the semester we will take on a series of debates about political philosophy and animal ethics, the moral status of nature, the advancement of environmental ethics in politics and the conflicts between this and other anthropocentric values. Students will understand the existing tensions between these distinct perspectives from a non-antropocentric analysis and the role of the state and certain principles of justice.