Nach positiver Absolvierung der Lehrveranstaltung sind Studierende in der Lage...
Nach positiver Absolvierung der Lehrveranstaltung haben Studierende eine Auswahl ethischer Positionen zur Bodennutzung kennengelernt. Aldo Leopold hat in seinem Buch „A Sand County Almanac“ (1949) die Bodenethik als Teilbereich der Angewandten Ethik begründet. Studierende werden mit konkreten Anwendungen ethischer Positionen auf Bodenpolitik, Eigentumsrechte und Raumplanung vertraut gemacht.
Aldo Leopold, in his 1949 book »A Sand County Almanac«, inaugurated »land ethic« as a field of applied ethics. Leopold’s land ethic »changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.« Leopold demanded:
»Quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.«
Leopold spoke of a »cowman who cleans his range of wolves« and disrupts the ecological balance between wolves, deer and vegetation. The cowman, Leopold claimed, caused an ecological disaster because he »has not learned to think like a mountain.«
The online seminar will examine how various members of the land community might be thinking and which consequences »thinking like a mountain« has for land use ethics.
