Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

This course explores the history of moral philosophy by examining the writings of key thinkers in the Western philosophical canon, including Leibniz, Hume, Kant and Hegal. We will focus on four basic ...

In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a satisfactory ethical theory. Although his theory has much in common with utilitarianism, it ...

Ethics are a system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy which defines what is good for individuals and society. At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how ...

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The course readings for this course come from many countries, they include novels, short stories, plays, and excerpts from classic works of moral philosophy. The readings also span many centuries, ...

Jimmy Lenman is very interested in how relevant an action’s consequences are to determining whether it is right or wrong and to what extent moral relations between ... to issues in political and ...