NTRES 3320 - Introduction to Ethics and Environment

(crosslisted) ENVS 3320
(KCM-AG)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

J. Tantillo.

Introduction to ethics, aesthetics, and epistemology as related to the environment. Asks the question “How should I live?” and explores the implications of different answers to that question for our treatment of nature. Also examines the various approaches to ethical theory; the relations between art, literature, religion, and morality; the objective nature of value judgments; and the subjective nature of nature.