What would Socrates do? [sound recording] : the history of moral thought and ethics / taught by Peter Kreeft.
Kreeft, Peter.; Kreeft, Peter. Ethics.; Recorded Books, Inc.
2004
BF1012 .K74 2004 (Mapit)
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Title What would Socrates do? [sound recording] : the history of moral thought and ethics / taught by Peter Kreeft.
Author Kreeft, Peter.
ISBN 0760750122
9780760750124
Publication Details [United States] : Barnes & Noble Audio, p2004.
Language English
Description 7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (96 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 23 cm.)
Call Number BF1012 .K74 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 170 K92w 2004b
Summary 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 Sartre.
Note Compact discs.
"Lecture content c2004 by Peter Kreeft. p2004 by Recorded Books LLC. this edition 2004 by Barnes & Noble Publishing"--Disc surface.
Originally recorded under the title: Ethics : a history of moral thought.
Bibliography, etc. Note Course guide includes bibliographical references following lecture notes.
Added Author Kreeft, Peter. Ethics.
Added Corporate Author Recorded Books, Inc.
Series Portable professor. Philosophy
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > CDs
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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?

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