- 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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