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
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
Soren Kierkegaard and Frederick Nietzsche stand as two great thinkers prefiguring, among other things, the advent of 'existentialism' in the 20th Century Philosophy. Temperamentally and philosophically opposed (Kierkegaard being deeply religious; Nietzsche deeply suspicious of religion), the two figures nevertheless speak passionately of the individuals' potential to relate inwardly and forcefully to the source of their values. Their writings can be, in Richard Rorty's sense, 'edifying' -- provocative 'redescriptions' of life that may or may not leave their mark on a particular reader.
Soren Kierkegaard
