In this class we will examine a wide variety of moral issues that arise in our interactions with other human beings in the social realm, and especially with non-human animals and inanimate features of the environment in the realm of ‘nature.’ We will read and discuss the work of philosophers, novelists, essayists, and artists who have attempted to address some of the most pressing ethical problems facing human beings at the beginning of the 21st Century. Topics we will consider include deep ecology, the case for animal rights, feminism and ecofeminism, obligations to the environment, and the impact of technology on our conceptions of what it means to be human.
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