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Ethics [sound recording] : a history of moral thought / Peter Kreeft.

By: Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: U1017 | Recorded BooksSeries: The modern scholarPublication details: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2004.Description: 7 sound cassettes : analog + 1 course guide (96 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1402547692 (set)
  • 1402547714 (guide)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170
LOC classification:
  • RZA 8300
Contents:
Lecture 1. Being good and everything else: an introduction -- Lecture 2. Being good and being traditional: why do we call it "ancient wisdom"? -- Lecture 3. Being good and being wise: can virtue be taught? -- Lecture 4. Being good and being pious: Plato's Euthyphro -- Lecture 5. Being good and being happy: Plato's Republic -- Lecture 6. Aristotle's Ethics -- Lecture 7. Being good and being successful: Aquinas on the meaning of life -- Lecture 8. Being good and being successful according to Machiavelli: is it either/or? -- Lecture 9. Being good and being evil: is humanity naturally good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau) -- Lecture 10. Being good and being scientific: can morality be a science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill) -- Lecture 11. Being good and being fair: the ethics of Kant -- Lecture 12. Being good and being secular: can an atheist be ethical? The ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre -- Lecture 13. Being good in eastern ethics -- Lecture 14. Being good and surviving: ethics and the future of western civilization.
Lectures delivered by Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy.Summary: Presents a look at our history as ethical beings. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft delivers a course addressing some of the questions man has been asking since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust?
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Lecture 1. Being good and everything else: an introduction -- Lecture 2. Being good and being traditional: why do we call it "ancient wisdom"? -- Lecture 3. Being good and being wise: can virtue be taught? -- Lecture 4. Being good and being pious: Plato's Euthyphro -- Lecture 5. Being good and being happy: Plato's Republic -- Lecture 6. Aristotle's Ethics -- Lecture 7. Being good and being successful: Aquinas on the meaning of life -- Lecture 8. Being good and being successful according to Machiavelli: is it either/or? -- Lecture 9. Being good and being evil: is humanity naturally good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau) -- Lecture 10. Being good and being scientific: can morality be a science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill) -- Lecture 11. Being good and being fair: the ethics of Kant -- Lecture 12. Being good and being secular: can an atheist be ethical? The ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre -- Lecture 13. Being good in eastern ethics -- Lecture 14. Being good and surviving: ethics and the future of western civilization.

Lectures delivered by Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy.

Presents a look at our history as ethical beings. Boston College professor Peter Kreeft delivers a course addressing some of the questions man has been asking since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important? Why is it better to be good and just than it is to be bad and unjust?

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