546-0615/01 – Philosophy and Ethics of Environment (FEZP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Jiří Kupka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2013/2014 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal of the subject is to acquaint the students with the problems of environmental ethics. The students will learn in exercises the skills based on the competencies of environmental engineer.
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Summary
Environmental ethics is the discipline that studies the moral relationship of
human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and
its nonhuman contents. This course covers: (1) the challenge of environmental
ethics to the anthropocentrism (i.e., human-centeredness) embedded in
traditional western ethical thinking; (2) the early development of the
discipline in the 1960s and 1970s; (3) the connection of deep ecology, feminist
environmental ethics, and social ecology to politics; (4) the attempt to apply
traditional ethical theories, including consequentialism, deontology, and
virtue ethics, to support contemporary environmental concerns; and (5) the
focus of environmental literature on wilderness, and possible future
developments of the discipline.
Compulsory literature:
Light, A. and Katz, E. 1996. Environmental Pragmatism, London: Routledge.
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., and Behrens, W. W. 1972. The
Limits to Growth, New York: New American Library.Sessions, G. (ed) 1995. Deep
Ecology for the 21st Century, Boston: Shambhala 1995.
Recommended literature:
Witoszek, N. and Brennan, A. (eds) 1999. Philosophical Dialogues: Arne
Næss and the Progress of Eco-Philosophy, New York: Rowan and Littlefield.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Zpracování tří seminárních prací:
1) Etika a filosofie životního prostředí a "já"
2) Esej na téma "Dilemata" (např. zhodnocení postojů odpůrců a stoupenců globálního otepování, včetně silných a slabých stránek jejich argumentace a představení vlastního názoru)
3) Zpracování referátu na základě četby knihy s tématikou etiky a filosofie životního prostředí
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Introduction to Philosophy and Ethics in the environment. Definitions.
Perceptions on ethics, environmentalism, ecology and environmental ethics.
Morality and ethics, from ethics to environmental ethics.
Analysis of the most influential currents of thought contemporary environmental ethics - anthropocentrism, biocentrism, and ekocentrismu teocentrismu.
Deep, deep ecology; ekofeminismus.
Hypothesis "Gaia".
People and "other" animals. Why do we protect nature?
Ethics Environmental (environmental) responsibilities.
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