Course Description & Objectives:
- The nature of ethics/morality; good versus evil; right versus wrong; normative ethics and meta ethics;
- Key concepts in ethics, freedom and responsibility, justice and equality and duty.
- What is philosophy and what is Environmental Philosophy? Environmental Philosophy and how it influences the environment as a discipline and environment management activities.
- Environmental justice versus Environmental racism – country, regional and international perspectives. The nature of morality based on reason and morality based on community, morality and conventions.
- The nature and characteristics of a profession; personal versus professional ethics; ethical issues in environmental management (environmental ethics, etc), comparative study of professional ethics in various professions, the nature and characteristics of a code of conduct; codes of conduct and their relationship to ethic; code of conduct for environmentalists as professionals.
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