Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
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Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
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Learn to lead a sustainable lifestyle as you delve into key climate issues and understand how to address environmental challenges.
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
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- Highlights
- Course Details
- Curriculum
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- Earn a certificate upon completion
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges at FutureLearn Course details
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
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Skills you will learn
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- On this six-week course, you’ll understand how environmental issues can be constructively approached
- You’ll be introduced to environmental ethics and the different theories within it to explore the moral status of human beings and of our environment
- You’ll delve into different aesthetic concepts to understand the aesthetic value that landscapes and other environmental features have for humanity
- Next, you’ll explore environmental movements, such as ecofeminism, and understand how they can be used to address key issues
- You’ll delve further into specific issues, such as fast fashion, to understand its environmental toll and how it impacts humans
- You’ll explore alternatives to the current system to understand the solutions to reduce the industry’s environmental impacts
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges at FutureLearn Curriculum
Environmental Philosophy: Addressing Humanity's Most Urgent Challenges
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Environmental Ethics
Introduction & Course Overview
Ethics: How should we live?
Anthropocentrism and Ecocentricism
Wrap-Up
Environmental Aesthetics
Week 2 Overview
Beautiful, Sublime, and Picturesque
Art and the Aesthetic
Wrap-Up
Four Environmental Movements
Week 3 Overview
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
The Land Ethic
Deep Ecology
Ecofeminism
Wrap-Up
Sustainability and Future Generations
Week 4 Overview
Does What I Do Matter?
Obligations to Future Beings?
Wrap-up
Fast Fashion and Environmental Justice
Week 5 Overview
Fast Fashion’s Human Toll
Environmental Justice
Wrap-up
Eating Meat: Consequences and Alternatives
Week 6 Overview
Alternatives to the Current System
Hunting
Wrap-Up
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