- How do environmental issues intersect with socio-political issues?
- How do we best resolve conflicts between different interests (e.g. between human and nonhuman
interests)? - Find and evaluate and example of environmentat justice in Utah.
- What does it mean to treat land as a community or a community member?
- Should we rethink our (i.e. human’s) place in nature? Why? Why not? And, if so, how?
- How should we think about the relation between human and non-human interests? To which
extent are the two in opposition and to which extent do they overlap? - What is anthropocentrism? What is non-anthropocentrism? How should we think about
these two concepts and their relation?
- What is the role of care and emotional attachments (vs. detachment and logical reasoning) in
environmental ethics? - Should be accept death and dying to an extent insofar as it comes to us from non-human beings?
- What does it mean to love the land? Can we love the land to death? Should you indeed set
something free when you love it?
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