Ethics for the Anthropocene WF-OB-POEA
1. Introduction to Anthropocene (2 hours)
2. Introduction to ethics (6 hours)
3. Ethical challenges of Anthropocene:
a. Environmental ethics (6 hours)
b. Environmental virtue Ethics (4 hours)
c. Human being toward non-human beings (4 hours)
4. Methodology of academic writing and presentation of individual essays (8 hours)
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
Knowledge - after the course student knows about main theoretical issues discussed in contemporary ethics
Skills - a student is able to understand moral obligations towards nature, society and other beings
competencies - student applies moral competences in his/her actions
Assessment criteria
Students are obliged to write a philosophical essay. The grade will depend on the presence at lectures, results of the test covering material presented at lectures, and the student's ability to express and prove his/her point of view on the essay's subject.
Bibliography
Cafaro P., Ronald Sandler (eds.), Environmental Virtue Ethics, Littlefield Press 2005.
Di Paola, Marcello (2015): Virtues for the Anthropocene. In: environ values 24 (2), S. 183–207
Dzwonkowska D., (2016), Space for oikos, in: Returning to the Οἶκος. Ways to Recover our Common Home, (eds.) J. I. Kureethadam, Z. Łepko, R. F. Sadowski, Rome: LAS, pp. 156-172.
Dzwonkowska D., 2017, Environmental Ethics in Poland, "Journal of Agricultural and Environmnetal Ethics", 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10806-017-9659-6.
Dzwonkowska D., (2013), Virtue and vice in environmental discourse, “Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae” 11/4: 61-76
Sandler Ronald, Environmental Character: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, 2007
Singer Peter, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Williams, M., Zalasiewicz J., Haywood, A. & Ellis M. (eds) 2011. The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 369A, 833-1112.
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