E0321 - Sustainable Development - Global Challenges and Aspects

9) Environmental ethics

The area of environmental ethics is crucial in considering possible and appropriate solutions to environmental issues (or environmental crisis in a more general sense). If we want to discuss with reference to the wrongness or suitability of an action, then it is necessary to first define the wrongness or suitability. And there is room for ethics (in general), which deals with the world of values (as opposed to science, which deals with the world of facts). Due to the thematic differences from most courses at the Faculty of Science, ethics will be introduced in general in the first part, and then we will discuss in detail the key topics of environmental ethics.

The first group will be types of anthropocentric environmental ethics, such as the Selfish-Prey Attitude and the Attitude of Noble Humanity. In the second group, there are types of non-anthropocentric ethical theories that we will discuss in more depth, including an introduction to their founders of thought:

 

  • Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life
  • Aldo Leopold - Land Ethics
  • Peter Singer a Roderick Nash - Concept of Extended Rights
  • Arne Naess - Deep Ecology
    9_Env_ethics.pdf
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