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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Contemporary Ethical Issues Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Syllabus for Contemporary Ethical Issues

Minor · Philosophy · Semester 6 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours

The University sets this paper under Minor only, so your college may not run it.

Module 1: Religious attitudes towards the environment

  • 1 Vedic-Hindu perspective on the environment: reverence and sanctity of nature?
  • 2 Judaeo-Christian attitude towards the environment: dominion or stewardship?
  • 3 Buddhist view on environmental ethics.

Module 2: Environmental ethics

  • 1 Land ethics with special reference to Aldo Leopold.
  • 2 Shallow and deep ecology models of sustainable development: Arne Naess.
  • 3 The claims of ecofeminism: is it an environmental ethic?

Module 3: Some Living Ethical Debates

  • 1 Obligations to future generations.
  • 2 Ethics of nuclear war.
  • 3 Environmental Ethics and Climate Change.

Module 4: Freedom of Expression and Media

  • 1 Privacy and censorship in media; pornography and obscenity; arguments for and against pornography; is censorship of pornographic material justified?
  • 2 Truth-telling in Journalism (Truthfulness, Fairness and Objectivity in Journalism)
  • 3 Fake News, Misinformation, and Media Ethics/Digital Media Ethics and Social Media

Reference Books

  • 1 Leopold, A. (1949). A Sand County Almanac (The Land Ethic section). Oxford University Press.
  • 2 Naess, A. (1973). The shallow and the deep, long-range ecology movement. Inquiry, 16(1), 95–100.
  • 3 Warren, K. J. (1990). The power and the promise of ecological feminism. Environmental Ethics, 12(2), 125–146.
  • 4 Walzer, M. (1977). Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. Basic Books.
  • 5 Nussbaum, M. C. (2006). Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership. Harvard University Press.
  • 6 Christians, C. G., Glasser, T. L., McQuail, D., Nordenstreng, K., & White, R. A. (2009). Normative Theories of the Media. University of Illinois Press.
  • 7 Habermas, J. (1989). The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. MIT Press.
  • 8 Berry, D. (Ed.). (2000). Ethics and media culture: Practices and representations. Oxford: Focal Press.
  • 9 Frey, R. G., & Wellman, C. H. (Eds.). (2003). A companion to applied ethics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • 10 Gottlieb, R. S. (Ed.). (2006). The Oxford handbook of religion and ecology (Part I). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 11 Jamieson, D. (Ed.). (2001). A companion to environmental philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • 12 Zimmerman, M. E. (Ed.). (1993). Environmental philosophy: From animal rights to deep ecology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • 13 Smith, R. F. (2008). Ethics in journalism (6th ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 12 Following is the proposed paper pattern for (4 Credits) (A) External /
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