Ethics lectures to review

http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~sencerz/environ.htm

LECTURE-OUTLINES:


 METAETHICS  (Updated, September 2003)

• Ethics as a Part of Philosophy
• Parts and Structure of Ethical Inquiry
• The Concept of Morality (or What Counts as a Moral Judgment),
• Morality as a Normative System
• VARIOUS KINDS OF JUDGMENTS (summary and classification of various kinds of judgments as descriptions, norms, meta-judgments, etc.)
• RATIONALITY OF MORALITY  (September 25, 2003) 
• ETHICAL RELATIVISM, UNIVERSALISM, AND ABSOLUTISM 
• Do Animals Have Compassion? (An experiment on animals)

• NORMATIVE ETHICS (I) (October 2000)
  • The Structure of Ethical Theory,
  • Consequentialism, Classical Utilitarianism
  • Deontology
  • How to work with a matrix of utilities (February 22, 2001)
• Intrinsic Value and the Isolation Test (September 12, 2001)
• NORMATIVE ETHICS (II) -- B.Gert on Morality (Link to Gert's article) (August 2000)

•  ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
  • (1) A short Guide to (August 2000) 
  • (2) Singer On Animal Liberation (November 2000)
  • (3) The Moral Basis for Environmental Ethics (November 2000)

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