Oct 15, 2024  
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PHIL 225 - Environmental Ethics

4.00 credit hours
(Same as: ENVI 225 .) After a brief examination of philosophical ethical frameworks, the following will be considered: the history of environmental ethics; the problem of the “moral status” of nonhuman animals and other aspects of nature: the environment and “the good life,” ethical issues related to population growth, sustainability, diminishing/vanishing resources and the use of cost benefit analysis in environmental policy.

Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, Ethical Dimensions.
iCon(s): Sustaining Our World.


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