Advanced Topics in Ethics
Date:
Jul 02, 2000
This course develops new perspectives on key topics in the Objectivist ethics. It focuses on two broad issues: the significance, in ethics, of the fact that every one acts on some philosophy, and the dependence of the concept "value" on the concept "life."
Specific topics include:
- why the central question of ethics is what principles to live by, not what to do in isolated situations;
- choosing principles of action as a crucial aspect of volition; the cognitive steps necessary for grasping "value";
- why nothing other than life can function as an ultimate value;
- how literally every fact implies an evaluation.
ethics
Parts:
Handout:
none
Publications:
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Tape, 2005
(En)
- 360 mins
- Second Renaissance/ Ayn Rand Bookstore - 5 tape set