ETHICS: AN OVERVIEW
BY DARRELL P. ARNOLD, PH.D.
To facilitate the study of my students in Ethics classes, I have begun blogging material that runs parallel to my lectures. I make a few introductory blogs on the question of the origin of ethics available and now and then foray into metaethical themes, but most of this at the moment highlights normative theory. This will be updated through the coming semesters parallel to my coursework.
Part 1 — Considerations on Moral Reasoning, Metaethics and Moral Psychology
Introduction
Chapter 1 — Ethics and Critical Thinking
Chapter 2 — The Examined Ethical Life
Chapter 3 — Reasoning and the Facts of the Matter
Chapter 4 — Cooperation in the Natural and Social World
Part 2 — Normative Theory
Section 1 — Aristotle’s Ethics
Section 2 — Thomas Aquinas: A Christian Virtue Ethics
Chapter 9 — Deontological Ethics
Section 2 — A Critique of Kant’s Subjectivist View of ReasonÂ
Part 3 — Further Issues in Moral Philosophy
Chapter 10 — Questions of Ethics and Progress
Section 1 — Political Progress and Reason
Section 2 — Reasoning, Social Movements and the Law
Chapter 11 — Ethical PluralismÂ