| Course title | |||||
| 環境倫理学 [Environmental Ethics] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 01rn3072 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 大倉 茂 [OHKURA Shigeru] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| The environmental crisis is not a problem that can be reduced to scientific and technological issue. Specifically, even when we seek scientific and technological solutions to environmental crises, ethical questions such as why we use the science and technology are inherent in the background. Therefore, the environmental crisis can be understood as an ethical problem. In this lecture, I will give an overview of environmental ethics, which considers what attitude we should take toward nature, based on the environmental crisis as a local or global social reality in which modern agriculture is placed. Based on the history of pollution and global environmental problems, the lecture will introduce examples of environmental crises in the field, and present the findings of past thinkers as a history of thought on environmental ethics. At the same time, the lecture will provide an opportunity for students to think about what kind of environmental ethics is required to deal with today's environmental crisis. |
| Expected Learning |
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The student will be able to acquire analytical skills in the humanities and social sciences to address contemporary issues related to agriculture and rural areas that confront humanity in the region consisting of forests, rural areas, and cities, as well as globally. Students will be able to understand humanities and social science research with a focus on environmental ethics. |
| Course schedule |
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1. Introduction : Lecture Outline 2. A step forward in environmental ethics (1) : Environmental ethics in humanities, environmental ethics in environmental studies 3. A step forward in environmental ethics (2) : Environmental ethics in ethics, utilitarianism, duty theory, virtue ethics 4. History of thought on environmental ethics : From Peter Rabbit to Land Ethics 5. History of Ideas on Environmental Ethics : From "Silent Spring" to Sustainability 6. Issues in environmental ethics (1) : Anthropocentrism and Nature-centrism 7. Issues in Environmental Ethics (2) : Rights of Nature and Animal Liberation 8. Issues in environmental ethics (3) : Deep Ecology and Ecological Modernization 9. Issues in environmental ethics (4) : Environmental Justice 10. Interim summary : Summary of the lecture so far 11. Environmental justice in the light of pollution (1) : Video materials on pollution 12. Environmental Justice in the Context of Pollution (2) : Examining local environmental crises such as pollution from the perspective of environmental justice 13. Environmental Justice in the Context of Fast Fashion (1) : Video material on the relationship between fast fashion and environmental crisis 14. Environmental Justice in the Context of Fast Fashion (2) : Consideration of the global environmental crisis from the perspective of environmental justice 15. Conclusion: Towards an Environmental Ethics of Agriculture : Summary of the entire lecture |
| Prerequisites |
| None in particular. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| 大倉 茂『機械論的世界観批判序説』学文社 |
| References |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Evaluation will be based on the total of the mid-term test (40%) and the end-of-term report assignment (60%). |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| ethics, environmental ethics, pollution, environmental justice, global environmental issues |
| Office hours |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 1/21/2022 7:00:51 PM |