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PHIL 310: Introduction to Ethics

This course is an introduction to ethics and moral philosophy. It includes a survey of various normative ethical theories including Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Kant's Deontological Ethics. It may also cover various meta-ethical issues such as ethical relativism vs. ethical objectivism, as well as questions of knowledge and justification of moral claims. It may also include the application of normative ethical theories to contemporary moral issues.

Humanities
Author
Christian Bauer
Publisher
Folsom Lake College
Source
LibreTexts
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EN
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Contents· 127 sections
  1. 01: Evaluate a variety of concepts
  2. 1.01: Utilitarianism
  3. 1.1.01: An Introduction to Utilitarianism
  4. 1.1.02: Hedonism
  5. 1.1.03: Nozicks Experience Machine
  6. 1.1.04: The Foundations of Benthams Utilitarianism
  7. 1.1.05: The Structure of Benthams Utilitarianism
  8. 1.1.06: Hedonic Calculus
  9. 1.1.07: Problems with Benthams Utilitarianism
  10. 1.1.08: Mills Utilitarian Proof
  11. 1.1.09: Mills Qualitative Utilitarianism
  12. 1.1.10: Mills Rule Utilitarianism versus Benthams Act Utilitarianism
  13. 1.1.11: Strong versus Weak Rule Utilitarianism
  14. 1.1.12: Comparing the Classical Utilitarians
  15. 1.1.13: Non-Hedonistic Contemporary Utilitarianism- Peter Singer and Preference Utilitarianism
  16. 1.1.14: Summary
  17. 1.02: Kantian Ethics
  18. 1.2.01: An Introduction to Kantian Ethics
  19. 1.2.02: Some Key Ideas
  20. 1.2.03: Acting for the Sake of Duty and Acting in Accordance with Duty
  21. 1.2.04: Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives
  22. 1.2.05: The First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
  23. 1.2.06: Perfect and Imperfect Duties
  24. 1.2.07: Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative
  25. 1.2.08: The Third Formulation of the Categorical Imperative and Summary
  26. 1.2.09: Kant on Suicide
  27. 1.2.10: Problems and Responses- Conflicting Duties
  28. 1.2.11: Problems and Responses- The Role of Intuitions
  29. 1.2.12: Problem and Responses- Categorical Imperatives and Etiquette
  30. 1.2.13: Problems and Responses- The Domain of Morality
  31. 1.2.14: Summary
  32. 1.03: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
  33. 1.3.01: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Introduction
  34. 1.3.02: The Function Argument
  35. 1.3.03: Aristotelian Goodness
  36. 1.3.04: Eudaimonia and Virtue
  37. 1.3.05: Developing the Virtues
  38. 1.3.06: Practical Wisdom (Phronesis)
  39. 1.3.07: Voluntary Actions Involuntary Actions and Moral Responsibility
  40. 1.3.08: Objection- Unclear Guidance
  41. 1.3.09: Objection- Clashing Virtues
  42. 1.3.10: Objection- Circularity
  43. 1.3.11: Objection- Contribution to Eudaimonia
  44. 1.3.12: Moral Good and Individual Good
  45. 1.3.13: Summary
  46. 1.04: Aquinass Nstural Law Theory
  47. 1.4.01: Introduction to Aquinas
  48. 1.4.02: Motivating Natural Law Theory- The Euthyphro Dilemma and Divine Command Theory
  49. 1.4.03: Natural Law Theory
  50. 1.4.04: Summary of Aquinass Natural Law Theory
  51. 1.4.05: Putting this into Practice- The Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE)
  52. 1.4.06: Some Thoughts about Natural Law Theory
  53. 1.4.07: Summary
  54. 1.05: Fletcher's Situation Ethics
  55. 1.5.01: Situation Ethics Introduction
  56. 1.5.02: Fletchers Overall Framework
  57. 1.5.03: The Four Working Principles of Situationism
  58. 1.5.04: How to Work out What to Do- Conscience as a Verb not a Noun
  59. 1.5.05: The Six Propositions of Situation Ethics
  60. 1.5.06: Problems with Fletchers Situationism
  61. 1.5.07: Summary
  62. 02: Compare and contrast a variety of ethical theories with respect to specific ethical issues
  63. 2.01: The Ethics of Torture (Martine Berenpas)
  64. 2.1.01: What is torture
  65. 2.1.02: The philosophy of torture
  66. 2.1.03: The ticking time bomb thought experiment
  67. 2.1.04: For Review and Discussion
  68. 2.02: An Argument Against Capital Punishment (Noah Levin)
  69. 2.2.01: Main Argument
  70. 2.2.02: For Review and Discussion
  71. 2.03: Common Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob)
  72. 2.3.01: Introduction
  73. 2.3.02: Defining Abortion
  74. 2.3.03: Why Most Abortions Occur
  75. 2.3.04: Bad Arguments- Question-Begging Arguments and Everyday Arguments
  76. 2.3.05: Question-begging Arguments
  77. 2.3.06: Everyday Arguments
  78. 2.3.07: For Review and Discussion
  79. 2.04: Better (Philosophical) Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis and Kristina Grob)
  80. 2.4.01: Introduction
  81. 2.4.02: Arguments Against Abortion
  82. 2.4.03: Arguments that abortion is often not wrong
  83. 2.4.04: Conclusion
  84. 2.4.05: For Review and Discussion
  85. 2.05: Animal Rights (Eduardo Salazar)
  86. 2.5.01: Virtue and Difference in Animal Ethics
  87. 2.5.02: Objection to Extending Moral Consideration to Animals
  88. 2.5.03: The Historical Non-Human Animal and Dominion
  89. 2.5.04: The Ontological Chain of Being
  90. 2.5.05: Modern Animal Rights- Singer and Regan
  91. 2.5.06: Virtue Ethics Difference and Dominion
  92. 2.5.07: Conclusion
  93. 2.5.08: For Review and Discussion
  94. 2.06: Environmental Ethics and Climate Change (Jonathan Spelman)
  95. 2.6.01: Introduction
  96. 2.6.02: Is it wrong to harm grasshoppers for no good reason
  97. 2.6.03: The problem of climate change
  98. 2.6.04: How should we respond to the problem of climate change
  99. 2.6.05: For Review and Discussion
  100. 03: Analyze arguments from primary sources concerning good evil right wrong and other ideas addressed in the course.
  101. 3.01: Metaethical Theories
  102. 3.1.01: Introduction
  103. 3.1.02: The Value of Metaethics
  104. 3.1.03: Cognitivism versus Non-Cognitivism
  105. 3.1.04: Realism versus Anti-Realism
  106. 3.1.05: The Metaethical Map
  107. 3.1.06: Cognitivist and Realist Theory One (Naturalism)
  108. 3.1.07: Objections to Naturalism
  109. 3.1.08: Cognitivist and Realist Theory Two (Non-Naturalism)
  110. 3.1.09: Objections to Intuitionism
  111. 3.1.10: Cognitivist and Anti-Realist Theory One (Moral Error Theory)
  112. 3.1.11: Objections to Moral Error Theory
  113. 3.1.12: Non-Cognitivism
  114. 3.1.13: Non-Cognitivist and Anti-Realist Theory One (Emotivism)
  115. 3.1.14: Objections to Emotivism
  116. 3.1.15: Non-Cognitivist and Anti-Realist Theory Two (Prescriptivism)
  117. 3.1.16: Objections to Prescriptivism
  118. 3.1.17: Summary
  119. 04: Assess presuppositions underlying various moral perspectives.
  120. 4.01: Utilitarianism- Pros and Cons (B.M. Wooldridge)
  121. 4.1.01: For Review and Discussion
  122. 4.02: The Categorical Imperative (Immanuel Kant)
  123. 4.2.01: For Review and Discussion
  124. 4.03: The Virtues (Aristotle)
  125. 4.3.01: Book I
  126. 4.3.02: Book II
  127. 4.3.03: For Review and Discussion