Environmental Ethics WF-FI-DZWONKEnvEt-ER
The course content:
1. Introduction to environmental ethics: history of reflection, main theoretical problems, and methods - 4 hours
2. Three approaches to environmental ethics: deontological, consequentialist and aretological - 4 hours
3. The noramtivity of nature - 2 hours
4. Anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism - 4 hours
5. The value of nature - 6 hours
6. Environmental Ethics in Poland - 2 hours
7. The value of biodiversity - 2 hours
8. Ethics and animals - 4 hours
9. Ethics in the age of Man (Anthopocene) - 2 hours
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge - after the course stusent knows about main theoretical issues discussed in environmental ethics
Skills - student is able to udnerstand moral obligations towards nature
competencies - student applies environmental moral competences in his/her actions
Bibliography
1. Sandler Ronald, Character and Environment. A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, Nowy Jork 2007.
2. Sandler Ronald, Environmental Ethics. Theory in Practice, Oxford University Press, Nowy Jork 2018.
3. Tyburski Włodzimierz, Człowiek i środowisko. Dyscypliny humanistyczne i ekologia, Toruń 1995.
Tyburski Włodzimierz, Dyscypliny humanistyczne i ekologia, Wydawnictwo UMK, Toruń 2013.
4. Tyburski Włodzimierz, Główne kierunki i zasady etyki środowiskowej, w: A. Papuziński (red.) Wprowadzenie do filozoficznych problemów ekologii, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz 1999, s. 97-132.
5. Dzwonkowska Dominika, Environmental Ethics in Poland, „Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics”, 30(2017)1, s. 135–15, doi: 10.1007/s10806-017-9659-6
6. Dzwonkowska Dominika, Virtue and vice in environmental discourse, „Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae”, 11(2013)4, s. 61-76.
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