Ethics Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rear Window Ethics What Is Ethics? Film as Experimental Exploring Ethics Through Film Chapter 1 Excess and Obsession: Ancient Ethics Why Be Moral? Plato’s Moral Theory Aristotle and Virtue Ethics Stoicism Epicureanism FEATURE FILMS: DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE and UNDER THE SKIN Chapter 2 Sin and Self-Denial: Religious Ethics Divine Command Augustine Aquinas and Natural Law The Problem of Evil FEATURE FILMS: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS and THE ADDICTION Chapter 3 Pleasure, Happiness and Rights: Enlightenment Ethics Hobbes and the Social Contract Enlightenment and Happiness Utilitarianism Locke and Rights The Libertine and Scientific Morality FEATURE FILMS: DIRTY HARRY and THE DARK KNIGHT Chapter 4 Personhood and Autonomy: Kantian Ethics Duty and Desire Persons Autonomy Marx Habermas and Discourse Ethics FEATURE FILMS: HIGH NOON and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Chapter 5 Slaves, Supermen and Authentic Selves: Existentialist Ethics Nietzsche Kierkegaard Twentieth-Century Existentialism: Sartre et al. The Social Situation: de Beauvoir FEATURE FILMS: ROPE and FIGHT CLUB Chapter 6 Encounters with Aliens: Ethics and the Other The Critique of ‘Traditional’ Ethics The Ethics of Care Levinas, Ethics and the Other Foucault, Power and Ethics Experiments in Living FEATURE FILMS: CASABLANCA and FORCE MAJEURE Filmography Glossary Bibliography Index