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Ethics : what is right?
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Moral philosophy lies at the heart of today's most heated issues-abortion, human cloning, assisted suicide, financial conflicts of interest, and environmental stewardship. In this program, Harvard ...
Moral philosophy lies at the heart of today's most heated issues-abortion, human cloning, assisted suicide, financial conflicts of interest, and environmental stewardship. In this program, Harvard University's Frances Kamm; Rutgers University's Larry Temkin; and Richard Sorabji, honorary fellow at Wolfson College, the University of Oxford, describe the three major categories of ethics: metaethics; applied ethics; and normative ethics, including virtue theory, divine command theory, utilitarian theory, and duty theory. Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Mill's Utilitarianism are considered, along with the contributions of Epicurus, Hume, Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, John Rawls, and others.
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- Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c2004
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- 1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col., digital
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- ISBNs
- 9781421314921
- OCLC
- ocn709668510
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
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- What is Ethics? (1:55) -- Metaethics, Cognitivism and Prescriptivism (2:44) -- David Hume: Father of Non-Cognitivism (3:00) -- Plato's "Republic": the "Ring of Gyges" (3:39) -- Plato: the Nature of Justice (1:26) -- Normative Ethics (1:56) -- Virtue Theory (4:37) -- Aristotelian Ethics (2:04) -- Divine Command Theory (3:26) -- Utilitarian Theory (4:48) -- Duty Theory (4:55) -- Contemporary Normative Ethics: Formalism (2:23) -- Contemporary Normative Ethics (3:06) -- Applied Ethics (3:40) -- Applied Ethics in a Modern World (2:55) -- Ethics defined (1:02) -- UTILITARIANISM DEFINED (0:45) -- DEONTOLOGY DEFINED (1:25)