What ethics is and why moral argument is possible, the case for and against moral relativism, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Kant's ethics of duty, Aristotle's virtue ethics…
The law of war lets a soldier shoot an enemy asleep in his tent, yet forbids him to shoot the same man a minute later once he has thrown down his rifle and raised his hands. Why…
In 1951 a hospital kept a few cells from a dying woman's tumor without asking her. Their descendants are still growing in laboratories around the world, and they helped build th…
In 1812 the British Parliament made breaking a textile machine a crime punishable by death. The workers it targeted were not against machines as such; they were angry about who …
An introduction to environmental ethics, the branch of philosophy that asks what we owe to the natural world. This course covers the basic questions of moral status and value, t…