2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RST 412 - Environmental Ethics and Religion


Confronted by the mounting evidence of severe and unsustainable threats to the integrity and flourishing of planetary life, this course will examine principles of ethical behavior, drawn from a comprehensive survey of global cultural traditions which support authentic earth ethic in which human responsibility and care extends to the integral community of earth’s soils, waters, air and the multiple plant and animal species that inhabit them. This theoretic orientation will be complemented by consistent consideration of actual case studies that explore the tension between humans as members of the earth community and the appropriate limits of human intervention with it.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Oral Intensive
Offered in the Fall Semester