Ethics for the Anthropocene

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Course ID:	WF-OB-POEA
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.2 The subject classification code consists of three to five digits, where the first three represent the classification of the discipline according to the Discipline code list applicable to the Socrates/Erasmus program, the fourth (usually 0) - possible further specification of discipline information, the fifth - the degree of subject determined based on the year of study for which the subject is intended. / (unknown)
Course title:	Ethics for the Anthropocene
Name in Polish:	Ethics for the Anthropocene
Organizational unit:	Center for Ecology and Ecophilosophy
Course groups:	(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczelnianych - obszar nauk humanistycznych i społecznych (studia I st. i JM) (in Polish) Zajęcia w językach obcych w Instytucie Ekologii i Bioetyki
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:	English
Subject level:	advanced
Learning outcome code/codes:	OB2_W09 OB2_W12 OB2_U01 OB2_U09
Short description:	The aim of the lecture is to present Anthropocene as a new geological era, introducing the ethical consequences of naming the era after a human being. As is said in Hans Jonas’ book “The Imperative of Responsibility”, the bigger power one has the bigger is his responsibility. This is the motto of the lecture. During the course we will focus mostly on ethical challenges in the age of man: especially on those connected with globalization, ability to interfere into nature (including animals) as well as the problem of the globalization of responsibility through expanding the circle of those included into our ethical consideration.
Full description:	1. Introduction to Anthropocene (2 hours) 2. Introduction to ethics (6 hours) 3. Ethical challenges of Anthropocene: a. Environmental ethics (6 hours) b. Environmental virtue Ethics (4 hours) c. Human being toward non-human beings (4 hours) 4. Methodology of academic writing and presentation of individual essays (8 hours)
Bibliography:	Cafaro P., Ronald Sandler (eds.), Environmental Virtue Ethics, Littlefield Press 2005. Di Paola, Marcello (2015): Virtues for the Anthropocene. In: environ values 24 (2), S. 183–207 Dzwonkowska D., (2016), Space for oikos, in: Returning to the Οἶκος. Ways to Recover our Common Home, (eds.) J. I. Kureethadam, Z. Łepko, R. F. Sadowski, Rome: LAS, pp. 156-172. Dzwonkowska D., 2017, Environmental Ethics in Poland, "Journal of Agricultural and Environmnetal Ethics", 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10806-017-9659-6. Dzwonkowska D., (2013), Virtue and vice in environmental discourse, “Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae” 11/4: 61-76 Sandler Ronald, Environmental Character: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, 2007 Singer Peter, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically Williams, M., Zalasiewicz J., Haywood, A. & Ellis M. (eds) 2011. The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 369A, 833-1112.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Knowledge - after the course student knows about main theoretical issues discussed in contemporary ethics Skills - a student is able to understand moral obligations towards nature, society and other beings competencies - student applies moral competences in his/her actions
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Students are obliged to write a philosophical essay. The grade will depend on the presence at lectures, results of the test covering material presented at lectures, and the student's ability to express and prove his/her point of view on the essay's subject.

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