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posted by Stefan Sencerz
on Tuesday June 17, @06:02AM
from the Applied-Ethics dept.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
The main point of this lecture is to explore the limits, or boundaries, of the sphere of moral concern. To do it, we will introduce a few basic views concerning environment and animal rights.
Required readings:
Peter Singer, "Equality for Animals?"
Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights?".
Stefan Sencerz, "Ethics and Environment"
Additional Readings and Outlines:
An Animal's Place (The New York Times Magazine reporter Michael Pollan offers a critical discussion of Singer's position, then follows up with a much more moderate solution to the issues of "animal liberation") another link.
This Steer's Life, by Michael Pollan (with lots of good factual information).
Stefan Sencerz, Environmental Ethics Page (please notice extensive links at the bottom of that page).
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posted by Stefan Sencerz
on Tuesday June 17, @05:16AM
from the Normative-Ethics dept.
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We start this lecture introducing the basic idea of consequentialism and contrasting this approach with non-consequentialist ethics. Subsequently, we explore a few basic kinds of consequentialism. The classical version of utilitarianism will be used to illustrate the main tenets of utilitarianism. Main objections to consequentialism will be discussed next.
Required readings:
Rachels, Chapters 6 an 7 ("The Utilitarian Approach" and "The Debate Over Utilitarianism")
Additional Readings and Outlines:
Mill, "Utilitarianism"
How to work with the Matrix of Utility"
Sencerz, "Normative Ethics" (The Structure of Ethical Theory, Consequentialism, Objections to Utilitarianism)
Stefan Sencerz, "Intrinsic Value and Isolation Test"
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