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Introduction to Environmental Ethics: A Learning Guide in 20 Lessons

Introduction to Environmental Ethics: A Learning Guide in 20 Lessons

Author(s): Lynn Holtzman

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2020

Pages: 170

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This curriculum guide is a consolidation of lessons taken from ten years of teaching environmental ethics. The guide’s objective is twofold. First, to provide an introductory study of traditional and contemporary ethical theories and how these theories apply to humankind’s relationship toward the natural world. Secondly, it is meant to help students better conceptualize, and articulate their ethic as well as evaluate, understand, and engage the views and values of others they will encounter as a natural resource professional.

The topics are grouped into four subsections that include an introduction to general ethics and rhetoric, anthropocentric, and non-anthropocentric environmental ethics as well as a primer on methods for acquiring and actualizing an environmental ethic. Each lesson includes a student objective that reflects what the student is expected to learn and apply to their respective natural resources program major. The format also includes an overview and outline of the lecture content, key terms and concepts, readings, assignments and/or activities and a page for recording lecture notes. The readings and associated homework or in-class assignments/activities are used to trigger and provoke discussion about the lesson topic.

The lessons found in this guide are intended to help the student discover and understand the principles and practices that make for a sound environmental ethic and choose a path in life that reflects those newly found principles, passions, and practices as well as learn how to respect and respond to those who may differ.

Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
Preface (How to use this Lesson Guide)

Section I: Groundwork for an Environmental Ethic
Lesson 1: The Essentials of Ethics (What Is Ethics?)
Lesson 2: Positioning and Posturing: Proclaiming without Polarizing Polemics (What Makes for a Good Argument?)
Lesson 3: The Essentials of Environmental Ethics
Lesson 4: Economics and Environmental Ethics (How Are Economics and Ecology Related, and What Are the Implications of This relationship for an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 5: “Science without religion [ethics] is lame, religion [ethics] without science is blind.” (What are the strengths and shortcomings of science and technology in the development of an environmental ethic?)

Section II: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903
Lesson 6: The Beauty of the Beast (What Is an Environmental Aesthetic?)
Lesson 7: Introduction to Extension Ethics (How Can Virtue Ethics, Deontology, and Utilitarianism Apply to the Formation of an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 8: Animals Ethics (Is the Animal Liberation Movement an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 9: Conservation Utilitarianism Part I (Conservation versus Preservation Ethics)
Lesson 10: Conservation Utilitarianism Part II (Are We Obligated to Protect Natural Resources for Future Generations?)
Lesson 11: Wilderness, Wildness, and the Politics of Nature (Are We “Born to Be Wild”?)
Lesson 12: The Moral Virtues of an Environmentalist (What Are the “Green” Virtues?)
Lesson 13: The Agrarian Ethic (You Are What You Eat and so Is the Land)

Section III: Aldo Leopold Inspecting Growth of Pine Sapling
Lesson 14: Shepherds of the Forest: Treebeard and the Meaning of Stewardship (What is a Theocentric Ethic?)
Lesson 15: The Ethical Legacy of Albert Schweitzer: All Life Matters! (What Is Biocentric Ethics?)
Lesson 16: The Land Ethic and Ecocentrism (Is Aldo Leopold Considered an Ecofascist?)
Lesson 17: The Ethics of Ecological Restoration (Is It Morally Right to Restore a Wetland?)
Lesson 18: Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Deep Ecology, Biophilia, Gaia, and Ecofeminism (Does Eywa exist?)

Section IV: Portrait of Henry David
Lesson 19: The Importance of Education and Experience in the Formation of an Environmental Ethic (What Are Thoreau’s and Leopold’s Methods for the Development of an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 20: The Ethics of Environmental Justice and Activism (“I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.”)

Bibliography

Lynn Holtzman

This curriculum guide is a consolidation of lessons taken from ten years of teaching environmental ethics. The guide’s objective is twofold. First, to provide an introductory study of traditional and contemporary ethical theories and how these theories apply to humankind’s relationship toward the natural world. Secondly, it is meant to help students better conceptualize, and articulate their ethic as well as evaluate, understand, and engage the views and values of others they will encounter as a natural resource professional.

The topics are grouped into four subsections that include an introduction to general ethics and rhetoric, anthropocentric, and non-anthropocentric environmental ethics as well as a primer on methods for acquiring and actualizing an environmental ethic. Each lesson includes a student objective that reflects what the student is expected to learn and apply to their respective natural resources program major. The format also includes an overview and outline of the lecture content, key terms and concepts, readings, assignments and/or activities and a page for recording lecture notes. The readings and associated homework or in-class assignments/activities are used to trigger and provoke discussion about the lesson topic.

The lessons found in this guide are intended to help the student discover and understand the principles and practices that make for a sound environmental ethic and choose a path in life that reflects those newly found principles, passions, and practices as well as learn how to respect and respond to those who may differ.

Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
Preface (How to use this Lesson Guide)

Section I: Groundwork for an Environmental Ethic
Lesson 1: The Essentials of Ethics (What Is Ethics?)
Lesson 2: Positioning and Posturing: Proclaiming without Polarizing Polemics (What Makes for a Good Argument?)
Lesson 3: The Essentials of Environmental Ethics
Lesson 4: Economics and Environmental Ethics (How Are Economics and Ecology Related, and What Are the Implications of This relationship for an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 5: “Science without religion [ethics] is lame, religion [ethics] without science is blind.” (What are the strengths and shortcomings of science and technology in the development of an environmental ethic?)

Section II: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903
Lesson 6: The Beauty of the Beast (What Is an Environmental Aesthetic?)
Lesson 7: Introduction to Extension Ethics (How Can Virtue Ethics, Deontology, and Utilitarianism Apply to the Formation of an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 8: Animals Ethics (Is the Animal Liberation Movement an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 9: Conservation Utilitarianism Part I (Conservation versus Preservation Ethics)
Lesson 10: Conservation Utilitarianism Part II (Are We Obligated to Protect Natural Resources for Future Generations?)
Lesson 11: Wilderness, Wildness, and the Politics of Nature (Are We “Born to Be Wild”?)
Lesson 12: The Moral Virtues of an Environmentalist (What Are the “Green” Virtues?)
Lesson 13: The Agrarian Ethic (You Are What You Eat and so Is the Land)

Section III: Aldo Leopold Inspecting Growth of Pine Sapling
Lesson 14: Shepherds of the Forest: Treebeard and the Meaning of Stewardship (What is a Theocentric Ethic?)
Lesson 15: The Ethical Legacy of Albert Schweitzer: All Life Matters! (What Is Biocentric Ethics?)
Lesson 16: The Land Ethic and Ecocentrism (Is Aldo Leopold Considered an Ecofascist?)
Lesson 17: The Ethics of Ecological Restoration (Is It Morally Right to Restore a Wetland?)
Lesson 18: Contemporary Environmental Ethics: Deep Ecology, Biophilia, Gaia, and Ecofeminism (Does Eywa exist?)

Section IV: Portrait of Henry David
Lesson 19: The Importance of Education and Experience in the Formation of an Environmental Ethic (What Are Thoreau’s and Leopold’s Methods for the Development of an Environmental Ethic?)
Lesson 20: The Ethics of Environmental Justice and Activism (“I am the Lorax, and I speak for the trees.”)

Bibliography

Lynn Holtzman
Lynn Holtzman