Ethics Course Videos

Eventually, down the line, I'm planning on producing a much more comprehensive open access Ethics course -- a complete interactive online environment covering everything I'd like to get to in a really excellent Ethics class (which just isn't possible in the 15 week semesters you get in college. 

I use some of Alasdair MacIntytyres' concepts to situate the class as a whole, and so we start with MacIntyre.  You may also find some of the Philosophy Core Concept videos useful for studying this material.

Alasdair MacIntyre on Emotivism and Virtue Ethics

• After Virtue ch. 2-3
• Plain Persons & Moral Philosophy

Plato's Virtue Ethics (and treatments of Might-Makes-Right, Egoism Contractarianism)

• Republic, bk. 1
• Republic, bk. 2
• Republic, bk. 4
• Republic, bk. 7
• Republic, bk. 9

Friedrich Nietzsche's Might Makes Right Ethics

The Genealogy of Morals (selections) 

Ayn Rand's Egoist Ethics 

• The Virtue of Selfishness (selections)

Thomas Hobbes' Egoist and Contractarian Ethics

•  Leviathan, ch. 6 & 10-11
•  Leviathan, ch. 13-15

Hedonist Ethics

• Aristippus and Epicurus

Stoic Ethics

•  Epictetus' Enchiridion and Discourses

Bentham's Utilitarian Ethics

• Introduction, ch. 1-5
• Introduction, ch. 6-11

Mill's Utilitarian Ethics

•  Utilitarianism, ch. 1-2
•  Utilitarianism, ch. 3-5
•  Qualitative Utilitarianism, Food, and the Culinary Arts: A Joint Presentation

Ross's Deontological Ethics

•  The Right and the Good

Kant's Deontological Ethics

• Groundwork, sec. 1
• Groundwork, sec. 2
• Groundwork, sec. 2-3

Ethics of Care and Feminist Ethics

•  Virginia Held, Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory
•  Rosemarie Tong, Gilligan's Ethics of Care

Aristotle's Virtue Ethics

• Nichomachean Ethics, bk.1
• Nichomachean Ethics, bk.2
• Nichomachean Ethics, bk 3
• Nichomachean Ethics, bk 3 and 4
• Nichomachean Ethics bk. 5
• Nichomachean Ethics, bk. 7
• Nichomachean Ethics, bk 8-9
• Nicomachean Ethics bk 10

Thomas Aquinas' Natural Law Ethics

• Summa Theologiae, IaIIae, q. 2-5
• Summa Theologiae, IaIIae, q.55 and 71
• Summa Theologiae, IaIIae, q. 91 and 94