NPTEL : NOC:Ethics (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Sreekumar Nellickappilly


Lecture 1 - Ethics and Morals: Introductory Remarks

Lecture 2 - Different Approaches to Ethics

Lecture 3 - Historical Perspectives: Agent-Centric Moral Theory of the East and the West

Lecture 4 - Medieval and Modern Moral Theories

Lecture 5 - Socratic Framework in Morla Philosophy

Lecture 6 - Eudaimonism to Divine Command

Lecture 7 - Divine Command Theory and the Euthyphro Dilemma

Lecture 8 - Different Types of Ethical Theory

Lecture 9 - Thomas Hobbes: Morality as Contract

Lecture 10 - Contractarianism

Lecture 11 - Contractarianism and its Moral Implications

Lecture 12 - Introduction to Deontological Approaches

Lecture 13 - Kantian Deontologism

Lecture 14 - Egoism and its Ethical Implications

Lecture 15 - Motivational and Ethical Hedonism

Lecture 16 - Utilitarianism and its Moral Position

Lecture 17 - The Individual and the Whole: The Ethics of Social Relations

Lecture 18 - Critique of Moral Absolutism: Nietzsche and his Reevaluation of Morals

Lecture 19 - Existentialism and Ethics

Lecture 20 - Ethics in the Present Age