| Summary: | Harvard University's Frances Kamm, Rutgers University's Larry Temkin, and Richard Sorabji, emeritus professor of philosophy at King's College, London, describe the three major categories of ethics: metaethics, applied ethics, and normative ethics. Also included are virtue theory, divine command theory, utilitarian theory, and duty theory. Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, and Kant's Grounding for the metaphysics of morals are considered along with the contributions of Epicurus, Hume, Bentham, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Max Weber, G.E. Moore, and John Rawls.
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| Production Credits: | For Films for the Humanities & Sciences: series consultant, Colin McGinn ; chief content officer, Frank Batavic. For Tranquilo Producciones: general producer, Eliseo Alvarez ; producer, Lila Kononovich ; director, Pablo Garcia ; scriptwriter, Martin Warmerdam ; editor, Alejandro Areal Vélez ; camera, Ignacio Masllorens ... [et al.] ; music composer, Carlos Gramuglia. |
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