The course is structured around "3" intertwined sets of topics: Morality and Justice; Happiness and Flourishing; Political Legitimacy & Social Structures.
Certificate: 3 Univ credit ECE
Lesson content
College credit & Studying Resources
100 Killer Open Courseware Projects
Lec 1. Introduction
Lec 2. The Ring of Gyges: Morality and Hypocrisy
Lec 3. Parts of the Soul I
Lec 4. Parts of the Soul II
Lec 5. The Well-Ordered Soul: Happiness and Harmon...
Lec 6. The Disordered Soul: Thémis and PTSD
Lec 7. Flourishing and Attachment
Lec 8. Flourishing and Detachment
Lec 9. Virtue and Habit I
Lec 10. Virtue and Habit II
Lec 11. Weakness of the Will and Procrastination
Lec 12. Utilitarianism and its Critiques
Lec 13. Deontology
Lec 14. The Trolley Problem
Lec 15. Empirically-informed Responses
Lec 16. Philosophical Puzzles
Lec 17. Punishment I
Lec 18. Punishment II
Lec 19. Contract & Commonwealth: Thomas Hobbes
Lec 20. The Prisoner's Dilemma
Lec 21. Equality
Lec 22. Equality II
Lec 23. Social Structures
Lec 24. Censorship
Lec 25. Tying up Loose Ends
Lec 26. Concluding Lecture
Final Exam