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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?
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?