Primer to Normative Ethics

What is normative ethics? This primer provides an accessible way of getting to grips with the aims of normative ethics and how the three moral traditions of utilitarianism/consequentialism, deontology (Kant), and virtue ethics generally overlap and differ.

This video is intended for students familiar with basic philosophical ideas and intending to do further study.

Host: Dr Todd Mei
Slide background artwork: Dattura Studios
Thumbnail Photo (Be Good): Nicolas Gras on Unsplash

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Introduction
0:24 What Is Normative Ethics
0:44 Normative Ethics and Action Guidance
1:44 Normative Ethics and Moral Community
2:42 Three Moral Traditions
3:42 Why Ethics Matters
4:10 The Problem of Moral Relativism
5:21 The Idea of Universal Moral Truth
6:37 Two Approaches to Moral Theory
8:41 Two Exercises
9:18 Exercise 1 (Standards of Right & Wrong)
9:54: Table 1 (The Question about Moral Standards)
11:56 Exercise 2 (Preferences When Acting Ethically)
12:26 Table 2 (Your Preferences about Moral Action)
16:59 Closing Comments

[minukutty]

Thanks for a very lucid presentation...hadn't juxtaposed the words normative and ethics before