Robert Cavalier
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon
Part I History of Ethics
Preface: The
Life of Socrates
Section 1:
Greek Moral Philosophy
Section 2:
Hellenistic and Roman Ethics
Section 3:
Early Christian Ethics
Section 4: Modern
Moral Philosophy
Section 5: 20th
Century Analytic Moral Philosophy
Part II Concepts and Problems
Preface: Meta-ethics,
Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics
Section 1:
Ethical Relativism
Section 2:
Ethical Egoism
Section 3:
Utilitarian Theories
Section 4: Deontological
Theories
Section 5: Virtue
Ethics
Section 6: Liberal
Rights and Communitarian Theories
Section 7: Ethics
of Care
Section 8: Case-based
Moral Reasoning
Section 9: Moral
Pluralism
Part III Applied Ethics
Preface: The
Field of Applied Ethics
Section 1:
The Topic of Euthanasia
Multimedia
Module: A Right to Die? The Dax
Cowart Case
Section 2:
The Topic of Abortion
Multimedia
Module: The Issue of Abortion in
America
Postscript:
Conflict Resolution
Greek Moral Philosophy
At the time of Socrates, Greek culture already had a long history. Through a series of migrations/invasions, early Greek civilization had a achieved its first high point during the Mycenean Period (c. 1,150-1,000 BCE). The epic Battle of Troy (c. 1,200 BCE) was later to be retold by Homer (c. 750 BCE) in the Iliad and the Odyssey. These stories (mythoi) were emblematic of the Greek self-understanding as it withstood a series of invasions from Persia during the opening of the Fifth Century. And it was this century that was to witness the Golden Age of Pericles as well as the decline and downfall of Athens. It was also this setting that provided the cultural context for the writings of Plato and Aristotle in the Fourth Century BCE.
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