The History of Ethics with Professor Angie Hobbs
This module offers a critical introduction to the history of ethical thought in the West, examining some of the key ideas of e.g.Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche, Rawls and Gilligan. It thus provides a text…
34:26
Lecture 11 - Gilligan's ethics of care
32:33
Lecture 10 - Nietzsche and Rawls's Theory of Justice
46:40
Lecture 9 - Nietzsche 1
45:02
Lecture 8 - Bentham and Mill
45:16
Lecture 7 - Bentham
41:00
Lecture 6 - Kant 3
44:53
Lecture 5 - Kant 2: The Categorical Imperative
44:52
Lecture 4 - Kant and Hume
42:51
Lecture 3 - Plato and Aristotle
46:34
Lecture 2 - Thrasymachus
45:23
Lecture 1 - Introduction and Callicles
This module offers a critical introduction to the history of ethical thought in the West, examining some of the key ideas of e.g.Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche, Rawls and Gilligan. It thus provides a textual introduction to some of the main types of ethical theory: the ethics of flourishing and virtue; deontology; utilitarianism; contractualism. The close interconnections between ethics and other branches of philosophy (e.g. metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics) will be highlighted, as will the connections between ethics and other disciplines (e.g. psychology, anthropology). These audio files are recordings of lectures taken from the PHI118 History of Ethics course, in the Department of Philosophy, given by our Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, Angie Hobbs.
The main text for the module is Singer, P. (ed.), 1994, Ethics, Oxford University Press. Image credit Tetraktys [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The main text for the module is Singer, P. (ed.), 1994, Ethics, Oxford University Press. Image credit Tetraktys [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons