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Ethics

Ethics. Instructor: Prof. Sreekumar Nellickappilly, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. This course introduces some basic concepts of the discipline Ethics, which will be of relevance to students of all disciplines, particularly to social sciences, humanities, law, business management and philosophy. Along with the historical evolution of the discipline, this course examines some important theoretical frameworks and analyses certain ethical challenges facing our society and humanity in general in the contemporary world. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 16 - Utilitarianism and its Moral Position

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Lecture 01 - Ethics and Morals: Introductory Remarks

Lecture 02 - Different Approaches to Ethics

Lecture 03 - Historical Perspectives: Agent Centered Moral Theory of the East and the West

Lecture 04 - Medieval and Modern Moral Theories

Lecture 05 - Socratic Framework in Moral Philosophy

Lecture 06 - Eudaimonism to Divine Command

Lecture 07 - Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma

Lecture 08 - Different Types of Ethical Theory

Lecture 09 - Thomas Hobbes: Morality as Contract

Lecture 10 - Contractarianism

Lecture 11 - Contractarianism and its Moral Implications

Lecture 12 - Introduction to Deontological Approaches

Lecture 13 - Kantian Deontologism

Lecture 14 - Egoism and its Ethical Implications

Lecture 15 - Motivational and Ethical Hedonism

Lecture 16 - Utilitarianism and its Moral Position

Lecture 17 - The Individual and the Whole: the Ethics of Social Relations

Lecture 18 - Critique of Moral Absolutism: Nietzsche and his Reevaluation of Morals

Lecture 19 - Existentialism and Ethics

Lecture 20 - Ethics in the Present Age