Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
University of Connecticut
This course explored the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of our interaction with the environment. Having completed this course, you've gained an appreciation for major ethical theories - utilitarianism, deontological, and virtue ethics. You now can recognize differences between anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches to humanity’s ethical relationship with the environment. And you can apply the general concepts you’ve learned to real-world challenges that impact our environment.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr. Mitch Green
Professor of Philosophy
University of Connecticut
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the main features of, and differences among, the three leading ethical theories (deontological, consequentialist, and virtue-ethical theories).
- Explain the difference between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric approaches to environmental value.
- Explain aesthetic concepts regarding the distinction between beauty, the picturesque, and the sublime.
- Explain the concept of sustainability and how it applies to concrete cases.
- Show how at least one of the four environmental movements (deep ecology, the land ethic, traditional ecological knowledge, and ecofeminism) would guide solutions to an environmental problem.
- Discuss a contemporary environmental issue such as fast fashion or vegetarianism/veganism and explain how a change in one's own lifestyle could have an impact on alleviating that problem.
Syllabus
- Environmental Ethics;
- Environmental Aesthetics;
- Environmental Movements (Traditional Ecological Knowledge, The Land Ethic, Deep Ecology, and Ecofeminism);
- Sustainability and Future Generations;
- Fast Fashion and Environmental Justice;
- Meat Eating: Consequences and Alternatives.
Issued on 14th February 2023
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