[Adams 101] • Ethics 101 by Boone, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Introduction Chapter 1: Ethics and The Ancient Greek Philosophers

Philosophy Versus Moral Philosophy The Importance of Ethics The Sophists The Socratic Method Plato’s Ethics The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle

Chapter 2: The Divergent Greek Schools

The Philosophy of the Cynics The Skeptics of Ancient Greece The Epicureans The Stoics Plotinus and Neoplatonism

Chapter 3: Consequentialist Ethics

Normative Ethics and Descriptive Ethics Jeremy Bentham and Measuring Utility John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism Ethical Altruism Rule Consequentialism Act Consequentialism Criticisms of Consequentialist Ethics

Chapter 4: Deontological Ethics

Immanuel Kant and Kantianism Kant and the Categorical Imperative Alternate Formulations of Kant’s Categorical Imperative John Rawls and the Ethics of Egalitarianism Criticisms of Kantian Ethics

Chapter 5: Virtue Ethics

Virtue Ethics Criticisms of Virtue Ethics Divine Command Theory Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law Ethics Ethical Relativism Moral Realism and Antirealism

Chapter 6: Eastern Moral Philosophies

Buddhist Ethics Confucianism and Ethics Ibn Sina’s Reconciliation Ibn Miskawayh and Al-Ghazali Taoist Ethics

Chapter 7: Negative Views on Ethics

Niccolò Machiavelli Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism The Ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche The Philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Language of Ethics

Chapter 8: Other Moral Philosophers

Peter Abelard and Nominalism Voltaire and Hedonism John Locke and the Just Government Lord Shaftesbury and Moral Sense Theory The Philosophies of Baruch Spinoza

Chapter 9: Classic Ethics Exercises

The Trolley Dilemma The Prisoner’s Dilemma Eubulides of Miletus and the Sorites Paradox The Spider in the Urinal The Cow in the Field Problem The Liar Paradox The Ship of Theseus Problem

Chapter 10: Applied Ethics

Business and Professional Ethics Ethics in Politics Medical Ethics Challenges in Bioethics Social Ethics

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