The Good Life
Ethics for everyday choices: consequences, duties and character.
EthicsIntroductory
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- Lessons
- 2
- Time
- 55 min
- Pauses to think
- 6
About this course
Should you break a promise to prevent harm? Is it wrong to push one person to save five? This course introduces the three big families of moral theory through dilemmas you vote on, then compares your answers with thousands of other people's.
You will be able to
- Explain consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics
- Use each theory to analyse a dilemma
- Understand why the trolley problem splits people
What is inside
1.Dilemmas
Cases where good principles collide.
- The trolley and the footbridge4 pausesFree preview9:56
- Three ways to judge an action2 pauses12:14