Walden: A Case Study in Virtue and Environmental Ethics

by Frank Casale, Ph.D.

Objectives

Educational Objectives:

1. Students will understand the concept of virtue ethics.

2. Students will understand environmental ethics.

3. Students will be able to discuss Walden as a text which questions and explores personal ethics, the good life, and our relation to the environment.

4. Students will be able to discuss their own conceptions of the good life, a good character, and the value of the natural world.