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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)

Ethics and Morals: Introductory Remarks


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

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Instructor: Prof. Sreekumar Nellickappilly, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. This course examines some important theoretical frameworks and analyses certain ethical challenges facing our society and humanity in general in the contemporary world.