Human/Animal Relationships and Moral Progress WF-OB-POPOLL2
1. Human/animal relationships: biological evolution and cultural history (6 hours)
2. The nature of ethics and the idea of moral progress (6 hours)
3. Animal ethics as moral progress (6 hours)
4. Animal ethics in real life (6 hours)
5. The future of human/animal relationships (6 hours)
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Students will gain knowledge human/animal relationships as moral progress through both an examination of the idea of moral progress in its philosophical underpinnings and theoretical aspects and an analysis of animal ethics theories and their outcomes in daily life contexts of human/animal interactions.
Kryteria oceniania
Methods of knowledge verification: Students are obliged to write a philosophical essay. The grade will depend on the student's ability to express and prove his/her point of view on the essay's subject.
Literatura
- De Grazia. David. 2002. Animal rights. A very short introduction, Oxford: Oxford U.P.
- Jamieson. Dale. 2003. Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Midgley. Mary. 1983. Animals and Why They Matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press
- Shipman. Pat. 2011, The animal connection. A new perspective on what makes us human, New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
- Singer. Peter. 1995. Animal Liberation. London: Pimlico
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