Contributions

  • Temkin, Larry S. - Contributor
  • Sorabji, Richard - Contributor
  • Tranquilo Producciones - Contributor
  • Films for the Humanities (Firm) - Contributor

Publication

2004 - Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Princeton, NJ, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

12,500 words, Guess

Page Count

50 pages

Physical Format

Video Recording

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Ethics

Description

"Harvard University's Frances Kamm, Rutgers University's Larry Temkin, and Richard Sorabji, emeritus professor of philosophy at King's College, London, describe the three major categories of ethics: metaethics, applied ethics, and normative ethics. Also included are virtue theory, divine command theory, utilitarian theory, and duty theory. Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals are considered along with the contributions of Epicurus, Hume, Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Max Weber, G.E. Moore, and John Rawls."--Container.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Great ideas of philosophy
  • CED 614 (NU course)
  • MGT 400 (NU course)

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