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Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Ethics of the Metaphysics of Morals

iad has never been able to make sense of turning any of that into an ethical system. And where i'm taking the aristotelian conception of virtue and excellence is of having something to do with psychological health. This is a good kick off of ethics proper, tom. I know we already had air style, but getting into these things about motive and obligation,. What should the rule be? The stuff of ethics class is not so much trying to figure out what the hell aristotle's talking about - when we can get to the ideas themselves. That always seems a good thing to me.

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