| Description |
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks. |
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The great courses (Compact disc) |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Course no. 4433. |
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"Philosophy & intellectual history"--Container cover. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Questions of value -- Facts and values -- Lives to envy, lives to admire -- Foundations of ethics, theories of the good -- Foundations of ethics, theories of the right -- Thoughts on religion and values -- Life's priorities -- The cash value of a life -- How do we know right from wrong? -- Cultures and values, questions of relativism -- Cultures and values, Hopi, Navajo, and Ik -- Evolution, ethics, and game theory. |
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Part 2. The objective side of value -- Better off dead -- A picture of justice -- Life's horrors -- A genealogy of my morals -- Theories of punishment -- Choice and chance -- Free will and determinism -- Images of immortality -- Ethical knowledge, rationality, and rules -- Moralities in conflict and in change -- Summing up. |
| Performer |
Taught by : Professor Patrick Grim, State Univeristyof New York at Stony Brook. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions. |
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GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Values.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Ethics.
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Conduct of life.
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| ISBN |
1598030949: $179.95 (set) |
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9781598030945 |
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