Ethics : a history of moral thought

 Content: Lecture 1. Being good and everything else: an introduction --
 Lecture 2. Being good and being traditional: why do we call it "ancient wisdom"? --
 Lecture 3. Being good and being wise: can virtue be taught --
 Lecture 4. Being good and being pious: Plato's Euthyphro --
 Lecture 5. Being good and being happy: Plato's Republic --
 Lecture 6. Aristotle's Ethics --
 Lecture 7. Being good and being successful: Aquinas on the meaning of life --
 Lecture 8. Being good and being successful according to Machiavelli: is it either/or? --
 Lecture 9. Being good and being evil: is humanity naturally good? (Hobbes vs. Rousseau) --
 Lecture 10. Being good and being scientific: can morality be a science? (Descartes, Hume, Mill) --
 Lecture 11. Being good and being fair: the ethics of Kant --
 Lecture 12. Being good and being secular: can an atheist be ethical? The ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre --
 Lecture 13. Being good in Eastern Ethics --
 Lecture 14. Being good and surviving ethics and the future of Western civilization.
 Abstract:             Addresses 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