Twentieth Century Ethics
David Solomon, Ph.D.
International Catholic University Classics Collection, recorded in 2004
This course is intended to be a general introduction to the main topics and the most significant developments in 20th-century ethics. Several of the figures discussed in these lectures, notably Elizabeth Anscombe and Alasdair MacIntyre, are among the most important Catholic philosophers in the century. This course focuses on Analytic, Anglophone ethics which had dominated moral philosophy in the universities of the U.S. and the U.K. for most of the century. There is a clear point of origination of this tradition in G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica, published in 1903, and a clear line of development within this tradition to the present day.
30-minute lectures
Introduction and 19th-Century Ethics
G. E. Moore and Intuitionism
Emotivism and Non-Cognitivism
Recovering the World
Metaethics and Normative Theory
John Rawls: Reviving Kant
The New Consequentialism
Rediscovering Virtue
After Virtue
Anti-Theory
The Applied Ethics Revolution
Whither Ethics?
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