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The ethics of care - Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg.

Further examination of the Eternal Recurrence, and the 20th century's most important political philosopher, John Rawls

An overview of Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy, The Transvaluation of All Values. and the Eternal Recurrence.

More on Bentham, and Mill's revisions to Bentham's hedonic calculus.

Bentham's ethics - The foundation of Bentham’s ethics is what he takes to be the fact that all sentient creatures are attracted to pleasure and recoil from pain.

Further investigation of Kant

Kant's application of the Categorical Imperative is examined.

Going from the Ancient Greeks to the eighteenth century, this lecture starts to look at the work of Kant and Hume

Both Plato and Aristotle argue that human flourishing is not to be achieved through the acquisition of material wealth and worldly power. They base their arguments on accounts of the human…

Review of Callicles, and exploration of Thrasymachus' two main statements about justice.