Introduction to Ethics
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1 modules • 26 lessons • 11 hours of video
Introduction to Ethics
26 lessons
• 10.5 hours
Introduction to Ethics
26 lessons
• 10.5 hours
- Utilitarianism 31:37
- Hedonism 20:09
- Is Pleasure the Only Good Thing? - Nozick's Experience Machine Thought Experiment 21:57
- The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment 23:19
- The First Known Philosophical Essay--from 1785--Arguing Against Punishing Gay Sex 24:40
- The Famous 'Sheriff' Counterexample to Utilitarianism 15:02
- Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil 33:51
- Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory - a summary with examples 25:04
- How Aristotle Thought about the World 19:58
- Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics - Book I 27:43
- Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals 25:28
- A.J. Ayer's Emotivist Theory of Moral Language 47:59
- David Hume's Argument Against Moral Realism 23:39
- Bernard Williams' Attack on Moral Relativism 30:35
- John Locke's argument, from 1689, for Divine Morality -- it's strengths and weaknesses 26:33
- Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism 12:20
- An Explanation of Terminology used in Metaethics 22:27
- Does Moral Error prove that there are Objective Moral Laws? 22:21
- The fallacious move from different perspectives to relativism about truth 11:06
- Is Moral Skepticism Self-Refuting? (No, but it has other problems) 28:09
- Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses) 21:05
- An argument against objective morality that defeats itself 43:29
- An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity) 13:24
- Occam's Razor - rational principles explained 11:34
- Does Occam's Razor rule out Objective Morality? 24:17
- Riggs v Palmer - famous court case about a grandson murdering his grandfather 27:14
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