Philosophy
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http://www.justiceharvard.org/
http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-political-philosophy
(Normative) Ethics
- Virtue Ethics: character-based
- Deontology: rule-based
- Categorical Imperative
- Contractarianism: Rawls etc
- Natural Rights: intrinsic rights of humans
- Consequentialism: outcome-based
- Utilitarianism: happiness maximisation
- Hedonism: pleasure maximisation
- Egoism: maximise good for the self
- Situational Ethics: maximise love
- Intellectualism: maximise knowledge
- Welfarism: maximise economic well-being
- Preference Utilitarianism: maximise preference satisfaction
Reading
- Virtue Ethics - don't understand this as yet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics)
- Re-read Nagle on synthesis - Wikipedia surely mischaracterises him as Deontological?
- Moral Absolutism: some things wrong no matter what - work into taxonomy? (relationship to Deontological)
- Hedonism