What would Socrates do? the history of moral thought and ethics

Fourteen lectures addressing the eternal questions that humanity has grappled with 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? Examines the history of ethical thought from Plato to Jean Paul S...

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Main Author: Kreeft, Peter
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, Inc
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Barnes & Noble Audio, p2004.
Series:Portable professor. Philosophy.
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505 0 |a Course lectures: 1. Being good and everything else: an introduction -- 2. Being good and being traditional: why do we call it "ancient wisdom"? -- 3. Being good and being wise: can virtue be taught -- 4. Being good and being pious: Plato's Euthyphro -- 5. Being good and being happy: Plato's Republic -- 6. Aristotle's Ethics -- 7. Being good and being successful: Aquinas on the meaning of life -- 8. Being good and being successful according to Machiavelli: is it either/or? -- 9. Being good and being evil: is humanity naturally good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau) -- 10. Being good and being scientific: can morality be a science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill) -- 11. Being good and being fair: the ethics of Kant -- 12. Being good and being secular: can an atheist be ethical? The ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre -- Lecture 13. Being good in Eastern Ethics -- 14. Final questions: Who's to say who's right? 
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