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Abstract: Study for Philosophical Ethics is briefly discussed.

Welcome to the Philosophical Ethics!

In this, the third and final part of the course …

Begin with the Introduction to Philosohical Ethics for a general orientation to the our approach to the question, as Aristotle put it, "living well and doing well in the affairs of the world."
Notice that in philosophy, the important aspect of ethics is not a question of feelings, rules to be followed, intuitions, governmental laws, or religious tenets. Instead, ethics is about giving good reasons for what one ought to do in order to have a life of excellence.
It's really important to see that one acts ethically, not because if one does not do so one will be punished, but because, as Socrates noted in our first edited reading, it is in our interest to do so.
When persons act unethically in an attempt to seek their own advantage, we should see that in a fundamental sense Socrates was right, they are establishing habits or states of mind which will probably produce harmful results over a lifetime. Consider this: how many selfish people do you know who are genuinely happy, have peace of mind, and are insightfully aware?
Some persons fear governmental and religious laws because they fear the consequences of breaking the laws; others act in accordance with what they know to be right because they recognize that freedom from greed, avarice, jealously, and so forth leads to an authentic and centered life.
But all this remains to be proven in this section of your course.
Continue to post critical comments on the reading assignments to the mwforum Discussion Board

Again, please continue to study daily. Philosophy takes a while to "sink in" because we are questioning many things we took for granted since early childhood.

If you have any problems, email me at larchie@philosophy.lander.edu at your first opportunity.

Further Reading:

Ethics. A quick summary of many aspects of ethics including definitions of meta-ethics, normative ethics, descriptive ethics, and applied ethics from the Wikipedia. The short article is useful in providing a brief overview of the different sectors of the field.
Ethics. An overview of meta-ethics, normative ethics, descriptive ethics, and applied ethics from a philosophical point of view provided by James Fieser in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Right and Good. A discussion of moral philosophy from a law-like and a teleological point of view in history, value theory, analysis, and pragmatism provided by Abraham Edel in The Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

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Nature of Philosophy Divisions of Philosophy Characteristics of a Philosophical Problem Principle of Charity Philosophy of Life Socratic Philosophy I Socratic Philosophy II Russell's Value of Philosophy Tolstoy's Faith Camus's Nobility of Soul James on the Significant Life Philosophy of Religion Introduction to Phil. of Religion Anselm's Ontological Argument Kant's Existence is Not a Predicate Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways --Motion --Cause --Necessary Being --Gradation --Design Paley's Teleological Argument Hume's Design Argument: A Critique Pascal's Wager Kierkegaard's Can God's Existence Be Proved? Dostoevsky's The Problem of Evil Hick's Evil Can Be Allowed Kierkegaard's Truth as Subjectivity Philosophical Ethics Free Will and Determinism Spinoza's Human Beings are Determined James's The Will to Believe Plato's Myth of Gyges Egoism is Mistaken Westermark's Ethics are Relative Moore's Objectivity of Moral Judgments Aristotle's Life of Excellence Bentham's The Greatest Good Nietzsche's Slave and Master Morality Sartre's Existential Ethics Philosophy of Art Voltaire's Beauty is Relative Hume's Art Has Standards Pater's Art as Emotional Response Bell's Art as Significant Form Philosophy of Knowledge Comte's Positive Philosophy Feuerbach's Scientific Determinism Russell's Correspondence Theory Bradley's Coherence Theory James's Pragmatic Theory Aristotle's Future Truths
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