The seminar is part of the master’s program “Ethics - Economics, Law, and Politics” and will therefore be taught in English. It may also be attended by students of the master’s programs in philosophy and by advanced students in the bachelor’s degree course in philosophy.
Anthropogenic climate change constitutes one of the most pressing problems and one of the biggest moral challenges of our time. To solve the problem a transition of our fuel-based energy systems to mostly carbon free energy systems has to be achieved in a relative short period of time. Climate change is connected with many problems ethics is ill prepared to solve, such as the relation between individual and collective responsibility, questions of global justice, problems of our obligations to future generations, and the problems of adequately dealing with risks. What has to be done, what must be avoided, what are the relevant normative considerations? How are the tasks of combating global energy poverty and preserving energy security related with the task to drastically reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases? These will be some of the questions and topics we will deal with in the seminar.
At the beginning of the seminar, the texts of the seminar will be provided as a download in Moodle.
Each week, all participants are required to submit a summary of the text in advance of that week’s session. The summary (1-2 pages) must be written in English.
- Kursleiter/in: Klaus Steigleder