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    Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
    Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
    Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
    Audiobook8 hours

    Ethics: A History of Moral Thought

    Written by Peter Kreeft

    Narrated by Peter Kreeft

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    This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man 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? Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. But why are ethics important to us? This course looks at our history as ethical beings. We'll travel into the very heart of mankind's greatest philosophical dilemmas-to the origins of our moral values and the problem of ethics. Are ethics universal, absolute and unchanging-or are they culturally relative, changing, and man-made? Furthermore, we'll delve into the creation of ethical systems-not just for ourselves, but also for society at large. And we will consider the ongoing process of establishing ethical frameworks for society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 3, 2008
    ISBN9781436174039
    Ethics: A History of Moral Thought
    Author

    Peter Kreeft

    Peter Kreeft (PhD, Fordham University) is professor of philosophy at Boston College where he has taught since 1965. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries and educational institutions in the eastern United States. Kreeft has written more than fifty books, including The Best Things in Life, The Journey, How to Win the Culture War, and Handbook of Christian Apologetics (with Ronald Tacelli).

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    • 5/5
      So, i have tried Plato's Republic and Kant's Metaphysics and found both of these challenging and hard to read for a beginner with little previous understanding of Philosophy. So this was great, understandable, accessible and a great introduction to Ethics. The chapter on Kant is tough but the rest went in quite well. I feel I could now go back and read Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Sartre etc with enough context for them to make sense.
    • 4/5
      The Idea of the GoodThis course provides an overview of moral philosophy, with emphasis in greek philosophy (Socrates, Plato and Aristotle). The lectures are organized in order to develop an dialogue between the various philosophers in a way that gives to the listener a better understanding of the diversity of thought. Particularly good is the lecture about Maquiavel. Particularly bad is the omission of pragmatism thought (Pierce, Dewey and James) and its idea of moral philosophy. One has in this course a good introduction in the matter.