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After completing this course, students are familiar with the most fundamental positions in environmental ethics and can distinguish between the different currents. They will be able to classify and evaluate modern problems of environmental ethics on the background of the classical positions dealt with in the lecture. In confrontation with historical approaches, they are enabled to recognize the ideological dimension of nature conservation problems and to distinguish them from ecological scientific considerations.

In contemporary environmental ethics, a wide variety of positions developed by thinkers such as Aldo Leopold, Bryan Norton or Baird Calicott, Hans Jonas and others are being advanced. In this lecture, some of the most important figures in environmental ethics will be introduced and their positions will be analysed based on textual examples and lectures.

Lecture, reading and discussion.

Collaboration during the lecture and written examination.

Environmental Ethics: Light, Andrew; Rolston, Holmes (Hg.) Malden 2003.

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