Ethics

 

  • Jeffrey Kaplan: Utilitarianism
    • Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
  • Crash Course: Utilitarianism
  • ThenNow: Utilitarianism (Stuart Mill)
  • utilitarianism.com
  • JK: Hedonism
  • JK: Is Pleasure the Only Good Thing?
    • Nozick’s Expierence Machine (Thought Experiment)
  • JK: The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment
  • JK: The First Known Philosophical Essay–from 1785–Arguing Against Punishing Gay Sex
  • JK: The Famous “Sheriff” Counterexample to Utilitarianism
  • JK: Peter Singer’s groundbreaking paper “Famine, Affluence and Morality”
  • JK: Immanuel Kant’s Moral Theory
  • JK: How Aristotle Thought about the World
  • JK: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics – Book I
  • JK: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
  • JK: A.J. Ayer’s Emotivist Theory of Moral Language
    • A.J. Ayer: Language, Truth, and Logic
  • JK: David Hume’s Argument Against Moral Realism
  • JK: Bernard Williams’ Attack on Moral Relativism
  • JK: John Locke’s argument, from 1689, for Divine Morality – it’s strengths and weaknesses
  • JK: Plato’s Euthyphro – explanation of the central argument of the dialogue
  • JK: Moral Skepticism and Moral Objectivism
  • JK: An Explanation of Terminology used in Metaethics
  • JK: Does Moral Error prove that there are Objective Moral Laws?
  • JK: The difference between arguments and conclusions (explained with a Flat Earth example)
  • JK: The fallacious move from different perspectives to relativism about truth
  • JK: Is Moral Skepticism Self-Refuting? (No, but it has other problems)
  • JK: Two possible arguments against the existence of objective morality (and possible responses)
  • JK: An argument against objective morality that defeats itself
  • JK: An Explanation of the Normative-Descriptive Distinction (and the varieties of normativity)
  • JK: Occam’s Razor explained, and how it differs from other rational principles
  • JK: Does Occam’s Razor rule out Objective Morality
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