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Links for Introduction to Ethics are curated here. I will regularly add new links, so please check back soon.

An Interfaith Dialogue by Eboo Patel. Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature w/ Tamar Gendler. Philosophy: Guide to Happiness. We tend to accept that people in authority must be right. It's this assumption that Socrates wanted us to challenge by urging us to think logically about the nonsense they often come out with, rather than being struck dumb by their aura of importance and air of suave certainty. This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life. Socrates on Self-Confidence (Part 1) - Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe? Partly because they are too easily swayed by other people's opinions and partly because they don't know when to have confidence in their own.

Seneca on Anger (Part 3) - Roman philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca (4BCE-65CE), the most famous and popular philosopher of his day, took the subject of anger seriously enough to dedicate a whole book to the subject. A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners | Marianne Talbot. Introduction to Natural Law - Murray N. Rothbard. [This article is excerpted from the first 5 chapters of The Ethics of Liberty. Audiobook versions of these chapters, read by Jeff Riggenbach, are now available for podcast or download.] 1. Natural Law and Reason (Listen to MP3) Among intellectuals who consider themselves "scientific," the phrase "the nature of man" is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.

In the controversy over man's nature, and over the broader and more controversial concept of "natural law," both sides have repeatedly proclaimed that natural law and theology are inextricably intertwined. The believer in a rationally established natural law must, then, face the hostility of both camps: the one group sensing in this position an antagonism toward religion; and the other group suspecting that God and mysticism are being slipped in by the back door. Because this position is startling to most people today, let us investigate this Thomistic position a little further. Or, as a modern Thomist philosopher declares: 2. My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It - Mark Twain. Read the collected works of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).More E-texts My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It by Mark Twaina.k.a.

Samuel Clemens(1835-1910) As I understand it, what you desire is information about 'my first lie, and how I got out of it.' I do not remember my first lie, it is too far back; but I remember my second one very well. It was human nature to want to get these riches, and I fell. To return to that early lie.

For instance. From the beginning of the Dreyfus case to the end of it all France, except a couple of dozen moral paladins, lay under the smother of the silent-assertion lie that no wrong was being done to a persecuted and unoffending man. Now there we have instances of three prominent ostensible civilisations working the silent-assertion lie. What I am arriving at is this: When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

'A lie? Classical & Medieval Sources of Natural Law | Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism. Philosophy: The Classics Podcast by Nigel Warburton.