IPP 503: Environmental Ethics

AWAYMAVE - The Distance Mode of MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University

Module Description

This module will explore some key perspectives on environmental ethics.

Its objectives are to:

• Introduce students to the main different approaches to ethics can be and have been applied to environmental questions. This will include utilitarian, deontological and virtues theories.
  
• Consider the boundaries of the beings to whom moral consideration is owed in our environmental decisions.
  
• Examine the claim that nature has intrinsic value.
  
• Engage in the debates specific controversies such as the value of wilderness and the paradoxes involved in the restoration of nature.
  
• Examine ecofeminist approaches to environmental ethics.