Course title
環境倫理学   [Environmental Ethics]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 3  Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 01RN3255
Instructor(s)
増田 敬祐   [MASUDA Keisuke]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
Ⅰ This class aims for understanding the basic point at issue of the environmental ethics and significance of the environmental ethics of the “Fudo”.
Ⅱ Think about the natural protection from the concept of “Kyosei”. This is because “Kyosei” is helpful so that it compiles various opinions about the environmental protection.
Ⅲ This class think about environmental protection from the view point of the local community.
Expected Learning
(1) Understanding the basic point at issue of the environmental ethics.
(2) Understanding environmental ethics of the “Fudo” and being able to make use of environmental ethics in practice.
(3) Being able to compile a report about environmental problems and nature conservation.
Course schedule
Week1 10/04 【Guidance】 What is the Environmental and Ethics?
【Ⅰ  What is the environmental ethics?】
Week2 10/11 (The environmental ethical point at issue)
Week3 10/18 (The point at issue of “the environmental ethics”Ⅰ)
Week4 10/25 (The point at issue of “the environmental ethics”Ⅱ)
【Ⅱ “Kyosei”of human being and nature and Idea of the environmental preservation】
Week5 11/01 (“Kyosei” of human being and nature and biologic symbiosis)
Week6 11/08 (“Kyosei” to think about from “Epic of Gilgamesh”)
Week7 11/15 (“Kyosei” to think about from “Princess Mononoke”Ⅰ)
Week8 11/22 (“Kyosei” to think about from “Princess Mononoke”Ⅱ)
Week9 11/29 (What does it mean human beings and humans, nature and humans interacting with each other?)
【Ⅲ Responsibility of the future generation】
Week10 12/06 (Pollution cases and Environmental justice)
Week11 12/13 (Responsibility for future generations)
【Ⅳ Contemporary significance of the environmental ethics of the “Fudo”】
Week12 12/20 (Concept of the “Fudo”)
Week13 1/10 (Significance of the environmental ethics of the “Fudo”)
Week14 1/17 (Modern “human crisis” and “Fudo”)
Week15 1/24 (Possibility of the reproduction of the “Fudo” and Significance of the agriculture)
Prerequisites
(1) We wish a student has an aggressive interest in environmental ethics.
(2) Allied subject : Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Environmental Education
Required Text(s) and Materials
“Kankyourinri to Fudo” SUMIO Kameyama (Otsukisyoten),
Distribution print
References
“Kankyoushisou no keyword” SYUJI Ozeki,SUMIO Kameyama,KAZUHIRO Takeda (Aokisyoten)
Assessment/Grading
1.The necessary condition
(1)More than four times of presentation of the question card.
(2)Presentation of the final report
(3)Presentation of other appropriate mini-reports
2.The evaluation of study is performed by the final report while considering the above.
Message from instructor(s)
We want you to positively participate in this class together with us and think about an environmental problem and an ethic.
Course keywords
Environmental ethics of the “Fudo”, Kyosei, The Japanese view of nature, Consensus building, The basics of environmental ethics point at issue
Office hours
We accept the questions after a class.
Remarks 1
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
9/26/2017 9:41:52 AM