Environmental Ethics
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Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Understand the concepts of basic and non-basic rights, morals, and deontological and teleological ethical perspectives.
2. Understand the influence of differing cultural value systems on relationships of humans with each other and with plants, animals and the land.
3. Objectively analyze environmental problems and compare and contrast different “world views” with prevailing “western views” of the environment.
4. Develop informed, objective perspectives and judgments regarding environmental issues.
5. Articulate responsibilities humans may have regarding global posterity.
6. Distinguish and apply the concepts of economic, instrumental, intrinsic, and inherent values as applied to ethical judgments regarding the environment.
7. Comprehend the connections and interrelatedness among all beings, human and non-human, life, and the globe upon which all dwell.
8. Distinguish between and apply concepts of anthropocentrism, sentientism, biocentrism, and holism toward the solution of environmental issues.
9. Understand the differences between objective and subjective realities and the magnitude and nature of impact each may have in the resolution of environmental quandaries.
10. Develop original and sustaining attitudes and guidelines which will enhance a healthy personal future and a healthy global enterprise.
11. Read and comprehend academic and professional literature on the subjects of environmental ethics and philosophy.
12. Understand and discuss how the “western mind” came to think and to be with regards to nature and the environment.

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