Philosophy - Ethics

Bullet-point organized notes from a lecture of cultural relativism, topics include the basic account of relativism, Ruth Benedict, moral community, and crates of cultural relativism.

Bullet-point organized notes from a lecture on Ethics (introduction), topics include, defining ethics, ancient and modern theoretical emphasis, philosophical inquiry, metaphysics, free will and determinism, and epistemology.

Bullet-point organized notes on a lecture about Immanuel Kant and deontology, topics included are respect and fear, value, the good will, autonomy, maxims, imperatives, duty, moral law, and lying.

Bullet-point organized notes from a lecture on subjectivism. Topics covered include individual relativism/subjectivism, the nature of opinions, universal moral theory, student realism, and Midgley's Five Point Critique of Individual Relativism/Subjectivism.

Bullet-point organized notes covering Utilitarianism including philosophical and ethical hedonism, principles of utilitarianism, greatest happiness principle, hierarchy of desires and pleasures, and developed agents.

Bullet-point organized notes from a lecture covering virtue ethics. Topic include the meaning of life, the good life, Aristotle's Empirical approach, reason and human excellence, the moral character of an act, living virtuous, and the virtues.

Detailed and thorough notes covering the introduction to ethics. Topic include defined ethics, theoretical ethics, nominative ethics, relativists and universalist theories, metaphysics, moral knowledge, moral reasoning, moral analysis and praxis, overcoming resistance, moral arguments, moral dilemma...

Detailed and organized notes covering the topics of deontology, morality, the good will and the good life, lying and excuses, the duty of justice, virtue ethics, reason and virtue, feminized care ethics, moral education, and a critique of virtue ethics. Introduces and compares W.D. Ross, Aristot...