Philosophical rebuttal and discussion of John Rawls and Christian Ethics and morality in opposition to existentialist and pragmatic views that they also are simply ruling class ideology.
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#8: Is/ought, Open Question Problem
Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas. Discusses David Hume’s and modern philosophy’s analyses of ethics and compares it to the history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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#9: Ethics, the Pretend Spectrum of Choices
A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas with a history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions from John Rawls to Marxism. It concludes with modern ethics being simply practical enforcement of ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. Discusses 20th Century ethics and morality from the perspective of existentialism as the last hope for defining morality.
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#10: Modern Ethics: Business as Usual
Ethics as ruling class ideology that is distinct from morality and existentialist and religious morality. A history of ethics beginning with Plato and Aristotle continuing to their modern spectrum of versions in John Rawls to Marxism. Discusses the arbitrary nature of ethics and morality and their insurmountable is/ought and open question dilemmas.
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