Full course information and description
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Philosophy 304: Colloquium in Applied Ethics: Sustainability | |
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Subject: Philosophy |
Fall 2007 |
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| Topics course. Students can take both fall and spring for credit; they count as separate courses. | |
| An examination of the conceptual and moral underpinnings of sustainability. Questions to be discussed include: what exactly is sustainability?; what conceptions of the world (as storehouse, as machine, etc.) does sustainability rely on, and are these conceptions justifiable?; how is sustainability related to conceptions of human progress into the distant future?; what values are affirmed by sustainability, and how can we argue those are values that should be endorsed?; and how does sustainability compare with environmental objectives of longer standing such as conservation and integrity | |