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2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Westminster College Catalog

PHI 230 - Environmental Ethics

Semester Hours: 4

Beginning with an examination of the nature of ethics in general, this course will explore a variety of theoretical positions on subjects such as the philosophy of nature, animal rights, deep ecology, eco-feminism, and global justice. One guiding theme will be the difference between the “anthropocentric” and an “eco-centric” attitude. Meets Religious and Philosophical Thought Intellectual Perspective requirement

Intellectual Perspective: RP