202735 Social and Cultural Philosophy: Philosophy and Sustainability - Reading seminar
summer semester 2017 | Last update: 27.06.2016 | Place course on memo listStudents should acquire a thorough understanding of the concept of sustainable development; learn to apply insights from social philosophy to problems of sustainable development; reflect on their own normative priorities concerning the relationship between humanity and nature; learn to critically examine approaches to sustainable regional and global development, identifying their advantages and disadvantages.
The concept of sustainable development and its descriptive and normative aspects; the various relationships and interactions between the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development; models of sustainability—or a lack thereof—from social philosophy, illustrated through concrete examples from history and the present; various proposals for solving the current social-environmental crisis.
Lecture inputs and discussion, student presentations.
Written.
Will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Weiterführende Literatur:
U. Beck, Weltrisikogesellschaft: Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Sicherheit, Frankfurt a.M. 4. Auflage. 2008.
J. Sachs / B. Ki-Moon, The Age of Sustainable Development, New York 2015.
M. Von Hauff / A. Kleine, Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Grundlagen und Umsetzung, München. 2. Auflage. 2014.
For Bachelor's Programme in Philosophy at the Catholic Theology Faculty (C 033 194): positive completion of compulsory modules 2 and 3.
217052 in the course catalogue of the PTH Brixen.
- Faculty of Catholic Theology