(in Polish) WM: Human/animal relationships and moral progress

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Course ID:	WF-FI-POLLO2-ER
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	(unknown)
Name in Polish:	WM: Human/animal relationships and moral progress
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	(unknown)
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	FI2_W02 FI2_W10 FI2_W11 FI2_U03 FI2_U06 FI2_U07 FI2_U08 FI2_U13 FI2_K08
Short description:	• Non human animals are part of human life in many ways. As a matter of fact, human civilization could not be possibile without the extensive use that Homo sapiens sa made of non human species. In the last two centuries human-animal relationships have been more and more under scrutiny of critical reflection and philosophical thinking in order to propose their reform. Human/animal relationships are nowadays part of a process of moral reformation and, in a sense, they can be regarded as a part of moral progress. The course will focus on the idea of reform of human/animal relationships as moral progress through both an examination of the idea of moral progress in its philosophical underpinnings and theoretical aspects and an analysis of animal ethics theories and their outcomes in daily life contexts of human/animal interactions.
Full description:	1. Human/animal relationships: biological evolution and cultural history (6 hours) 2. The nature of ethics and the idea of moral progress (6 hours) 3. Animal ethics as moral progress (6 hours) 4. Animal ethics in real life (6 hours) 5. The future of human/animal relationships (6 hours)
Bibliography:	- De Grazia. David. 2002. Animal rights. A very short introduction, Oxford: Oxford U.P. - Jamieson. Dale. 2003. Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. Oxford: Clarendon Press. - Midgley. Mary. 1983. Animals and Why They Matter, Athens: University of Georgia Press - Shipman. Pat. 2011, The animal connection. A new perspective on what makes us human, New York: W.W. Norton & Co. - Singer. Peter. 1995. Animal Liberation. London: Pimlico
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Students will gain knowledge human/animal relationships as moral progress through both an examination of the idea of moral progress in its philosophical underpinnings and theoretical aspects and an analysis of animal ethics theories and their outcomes in daily life contexts of human/animal interactions.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Methods of knowledge verification: Students are obliged to write a philosophical essay. The grade will depend on the student's ability to express and prove his/her point of view on the essay's subject.

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