Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Objectives: To acquaint the student with (a) philosophical concepts underlying thinking about the environmental crisis and (b) the models of human-nature relationship found in some of the classical philosophical systems of India.
Contents: (a) What is ‘environment’? (b) Conceptual basis for the split between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ (c) Philosophical theories about the environment: Utilitarianism: Deep Ecology: Ecofeminism. (d) Non-humans as recipients of moral consideration (e) Environment and Gender (f) Environment and Development (g) The Third World perspective (h) Revisioning Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology in the light of the above debates.