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A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners

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  • Making Up Your Mind

    August 8, 2011 · 1 hr 22 min

    Part 7 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". This final episode is a time to take stock and bring together all the strands we've considered.

  • Utilitarianism: Mill and the utility calculus

    June 27, 2011 · 1 hr 30 min

    Part 6 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". A reflection on Mill's account of morality, and the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  • Deontology: Kant, duty and the moral law

    June 3, 2011 · 1 hr 29 min

    Part 5 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Kant's account of morality, including the categorical imperative.

  • Humean Ethics: Non-Cognitivism, the passions and moral motivation

    June 2, 2011 · 1 hr 28 min

    Part 4 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we reflect on Hume's account of morality and his rejection of reason as the source of morality.

  • Virtue Ethics: virtue, values and character

    May 24, 2011 · 1 hr 22 min

    Part 3 of 7 in Marianne Talbot's "A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners". In this episode we will reflect on Aristotle's account of morality and the centrality of the virtues in this account.

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About the show

In this introduction to ethics, we shall be considering the underpinnings of ethical thought. We shall consider, for example, what it is for an action to be right or wrong, whether we can have moral knowledge and whether freewill is essential to morality. We shall reflect on four key ethical theories (virtue ethics, deontology, non-cognitivism and utilitarianism), looking at both their strengths and their weaknesses. We shall be looking at morality in the context of the individual and the context of society.