This course serves as an optional for non-philosophy students and offers credit for the department’s GEC importance. It also meets the philosophical requirement in NEP for the wholesome development of students. Environmental ethics mainly focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment including non-human living and non-living entities. In doing so it asks, analyses, and puts effort into answering complex moral questions that do not have straightforward or single answers. This course will begin with the fundamental questions of our relationship to our environment. What place do humans have in nature? Are they part of nature or stand apart from nature? Does the environment possess values, intrinsic or extrinsic? Can animals have moral standing? What is the most ethical response to climate change? What are steps required to be taken for the sustainability of the environment as well as indigenous knowledge? All these questions will be assessed by employing various normative as well as environmental ethical theories.

1.    CLO-1: To open a window to gather a variety of new principles, perspectives, and structures that may be diverse from their own.
 
2.    CLO-2: To exercise and accelerate intellectual inquisitiveness and engagement and to connect them with their lived experience and the world.    
 
3.    CLO-3: To equip students to participate in current debates about environmental issues and to think uniquely about their stance in the ecosystem.  

4.    CLO-4: To enhance the skill of challenging complex issues that necessitate intricate thinking focusing on classic and existing concepts.   
 

By Invitation Only

As Per University Norms