Introduction to Ethics

Unit I - Right and Wrong. The Normative Ethics of Behavior The Challenge of Cultural Relativism - James Rachels Euthyphro - Plato Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill Morality and Rationality - Immanuel Kant What Makes Right Acts Right? - W. D. Ross Unit II - Good and Bad. Axiology Pleasure as the Good - Jeremy Bentham Philebus - Plato What Things Are Good? - W. D. Ross The Good Life - Epicurus Goodness as the Satisfaction of Informed Desire - Richard Brandt Unit III - Virtue and Vice. The Ethics of Character Laches - Plato The Nature of Moral Virtue - Aristotle Ethics in Relation to Conduct - G. E. Moore Moral Saints - Susan Wolf