Ethics Notes

For the full transcript of this video lecture, visit this link: https://philonotes.com/index.php/2020/01/07/rawls-theory-of-justice/ John Rawls’ theory of justice attempts to explain why clear social inequalities are unjust and what a just society really is. As we can see, Rawls’ theory of justice as he developed in his seminal work A Theory of Justice is both a work of ethics and politics. Hence, we can glean from Rawls’ theory of justice some kind of an ethical theory. For one, in his A Theory of Justice, Rawls attempted to address the problem of distributive justice. In what follows, these notes will briefly sketch the key concepts of Rawls’ theory of justice.

For the full transcript of this video lecture, see https://philonotes.com/index.php/2020/09/08/virtue-ethics/ This video lecture discusses the meaning, nature, and dynamics of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics is one of the major approaches in normative ethics. It is viewed as an approach to ethics that emphasizes the person’s trait or character in moral thinking. Hence, trait or character is central to this approach to ethics in contrast to the other approaches that emphasizes the consequences of an action (as in the case of consequentialism) or the rules or duties (as in the case of deontological ethics).

Full transcript of this video lecture is available at https://philonotes.com/index.php/2020/03/31/aristotles-virtue-ethics/ This video lecture discusses Aristotle's Virtue Ethics. Aristotle’s virtue ethics can be gleaned from his seminal work titled Nichomachean Ethics. This book is undoubtedly the first systematic study of ethics in western civilization. In this book, Aristotle offers principles of conduct that would guide humans in attaining the “good life”.