Environmental Philosophy WF-OB-POEP
1. Environmental Philosophy in the context of Sustainability (20 hours): including history, main problems, representatives, main currents of the reflection.
2. Introduction to Sustainability (2 hours)
3. Globalization as a challenge and chance for the sustainability (2 hours)
4. Responsibility connected with bigger power (2 hours)
5. Globalization of responsibility: creating culture of global charity (2 hours)
6. Examination (2 hours)
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: student has knowledge on environmental philosophy, knows how it was formed and what are its main currents.
Skills: student reads and interprets philosophical texts in Polish and English. He has an ability of critical analises scientific value and significance of information found in the Internet of scientific literature.
Competencies: student is open to philosophical and ethical interpretation of man-environment relation.
1 ECTS – participation in the lecture
1 ECTS – preparation for lectures
2 ECTS – preparation for exam
Assessment criteria
Knowledge:
teaching method - lecture
verification - written examination in the form of a test.
Skills
teaching method - case study and lecture
verification - discussion with students
Competencies
teaching method - discussion during lecture
verification - consultation
Bibliography
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
Jamieson D., A companion to Environmental Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell 1991
Sandler Ronald, Environmental Character: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, 2007
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