Ethics : a history of moral thought

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Addresses the eternal questions that humanity has grappled with since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust? Examines the history of ethical thought from Plato to Jean Paul Sartre. Cover......Page 1 Course Syllabus......Page 4 About Your Professor......Page 5 Introduction......Page 6 Lecture 1 Being Good and Everything Else: An Introduction......Page 7 Lecture 2 Being Good and Being Traditional: Why Do We Call It “Ancient Wisdom?”......Page 12 Lecture 3 Being Good and Being Wise: Can Virtue Be Taught?......Page 17 Lecture 4 Being Good and Being Pious: Plato’s Euthyphro......Page 24 Lecture 5 Being Good and Being Happy: Plato’s Republic......Page 29 Lecture 6 Aristotle’s Ethics......Page 36 Lecture 7 Being Good and Being Successful: Aquinas on What Is the Meaning of Life?......Page 42 Lecture 8 Being Good and Being Successful According to Machiavelli: Is It Either/Or?......Page 50 Lecture 9 Being Good and Being Evil: Is Humanity Naturally Good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau)......Page 56 Lecture 10 Being Good and Being Scientific: Can Morality Be a Science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill)......Page 62 Lecture 11 Being Good and Being Fair: The Ethics of Kant......Page 69 Lecture 12 Being Good and Being Secular: Can an Atheist Be Ethical? The Ethics of Jean Paul Sartre......Page 76 Lecture 13 Being Good in Eastern Ethics......Page 82 Lecture 14 Being Good and Surviving: Ethics and the Future of Western Civilization......Page 89 Course Materials......Page 95