Moral philosophy lies at the heart of today’s most heated issues - abortion, human cloning, assisted suicide, financial conflicts of interest, and environmental stewardship. In this programme, Harvard University’s Frances Kamm; Rutgers University’s Larry Temkin; and Richard Sorabji, honorary fellow at Wolfson College, the University of Oxford, describe the three major categories of ethics: metaethics; applied ethics; and normative ethics, including virtue theory, divine command theory, utilitarian theory, and duty theory. Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Kant’s Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Mill’s Utilita-rianism are considered, along with the contributions of Epicurus, Hume, Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, John Rawls, and others.

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Chapters include: 1. What is Ethics? 2. Metaethics 3. Normative Ethics 4. Applied Ethics 5. Concluding Thoughts.