RLST 270

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to various religious and philosophical perspectives on environmental ethics. Asks whether the religious traditions can provide us with any resources that can help us to deal with contemporary environmental problems. Religious and philosophical perspectives on these topics will be central to the course: attitudes to individual animals, to other species, and in general to non-human nature; the place of human beings in nature; the relative importance of human development and environmental protection; relations between rich and poor; whether we might need to change our conception of what it is to live successfully; and the concepts of stewardship and sustainability.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2012 for:

• Humanities – Hist & Phil
• Cultural Studies - Western
• Cultural Studies - Non-West

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