Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part Two)
We dive further into the text of lectures 1 and 2 of The Sources of Normativity (1996). We give Korsgaard's account of the idea of reflective endorsement through Hume and Bernard Williams to get to he...
7 Juli 202549min
Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part One)
On The Sources of Normativity (1996), lectures 1 and 2. How are facts related to obligations? We don't want to merely explain our moral impulses, but justify them. Korsgaard walks us through the views...
30 Juni 202548min
Ep. 369: Philippa Foot's Naturalistic Ethics (Part Two)
Continuing on Natural Goodness, getting more into concrete cases of moral reasoning. How and why do we decide to keep promises, even in cases where violating them would produce more utility? How do we...
23 Juni 202547min
Ep. 369: Philippa Foot's Naturalistic Ethics (Part One)
On Natural Goodness (2001). Can we base ethics on the model of biology? Foot argues that just as we understand what a healthy specimen of a plant or animal is, so there is a natural way for humans to ...
16 Juni 202547min
Ep. 368: Hume on Reason in Ethics (Part Two)
We conclude our discussion of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739): Book III, "Of Morals," plus a bit more discussion of An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). How do moral sentiments fi...
9 Juni 202549min
Ep. 368: Hume on Reason in Ethics (Part One)
We talk a bit more about David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), and add some parts of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739): sec. 3 "Of the Influencing Motives of the Will" wi...
2 Juni 202544min
Ep. 367: Hume on the Foundations of Ethics (Part Two)
Continuing on An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), talking about justice (i.e. property laws), why utility is pleasing and what all it includes, sympathy, utility vs. beauty, and mor...
26 Maj 202546min
Ep. 367: Hume on the Foundations of Ethics (Part One)
On David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751). What is morality, and how can we know it? Hume claims that we simply find ourselves with sentiments morally approving and disappr...
19 Maj 202549min
