An introduction to the concept of environmental ethics - a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts traditionally applied to human behavior to address the entire natural world.
Survey of the development and application of moral reasoning skills to contemporary social and political issues. Topics include: philosophical investigations of justice, the value of human life, the moral standing of the free market, fundamental human rights and the conditions for a moral community.
This course will examine the main focus that unites existentialists, "existence." Particularly, it will examine the concrete existence of individual human beings. Major figures or study will be, Blaise Pascal, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus.