Bioethics: The Environment (PHRE-470)

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Contents 1 Course Description 1.1 Suggested Subjects 1.2 Suggested Books 1.3 Reference Sources 1.4 Recommended Databases 1.5 Selected Internet Resources

Course Description

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges to climate, life forms, human health and population, and essential resources. We tend to treat such issues simply as scientific or political problems. In reality, ecological controversies raise fundamental questions about what we human beings value, the kind of beings we are, the kinds of lives we should lead, and our place in nature. Sustainability is not possible without a deep change of values and commitment. In short, environmental problems raise fundamental questions of ethics and philosophy. This course seeks to provide a systematic introduction to those questions.

Suggested Subjects

Suggested Books

• Ecological Ethics: An Introduction

Reference Sources

Recommended Databases

Selected Internet Resources

• Bioethics Web