Ecology, Ethics and Spirit (P00555)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : DIV-P-P00555

To provide candidates with a multidisciplinary understanding of ecological ethics. Mobilising insights and perspectives from anthropology, ecology, ecological economics, philosophy and theology the emphasis will be upon the contrasting ways in which human cultural practices frame human-nature interactions in premodernity, modernity and postmodernity.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Theology and Ethics, (School of Divinity, Schedule B)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	15:00	17:00	MacKinnon Room, New College	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	15:00	17:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course learners should be able to:
Recognise, restate and critique the dominant modes of moral discourse in relation to human-nature relationships;
Articulate and discuss how ecological and spiritual insights may inform human agency with respect to the environment;
Explain and appraise alternative accounts of the origins and possible resolution of the ecological crisis;
Critically evaluate the predominance of narrowly economic over other kinds of ways of assessing the impacts of human activity on the non-human world.