15 Episodes

  1. Further reading and more... (Other Resource)

    Published: 4/16/2012

  2. Making Up Your Mind (Slides)

    Published: 8/8/2011

  3. Making Up Your Mind

    Published: 8/8/2011

  4. Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus

    Published: 6/27/2011

  5. Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus (Slides)

    Published: 6/27/2011

  6. Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law

    Published: 6/3/2011

  7. Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law (Slides)

    Published: 6/3/2011

  8. Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation

    Published: 6/2/2011

  9. Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation (Slides)

    Published: 6/2/2011

  10. Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character

    Published: 5/24/2011

  11. Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character (Slides)

    Published: 5/24/2011

  12. Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning (Slides)

    Published: 5/20/2011

  13. Freedom, knowledge and society: the preconditions of ethical reasoning

    Published: 5/20/2011

  14. Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning (Slides)

    Published: 5/19/2011

  15. Rules, truths and theories: an introduction to ethical reasoning

    Published: 5/19/2011

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In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical thought. We shall consider, for example, what it is for an action to be right or wrong, whether we can have moral knowledge and whether freewill is essential to morality. We shall reflect on four key ethical theories (virtue ethics, deontology, non-cognitivism and utilitarianism), looking at both their strengths and their weaknesses. We shall be looking at morality in the context of the individual and the context of society.