General
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Here are three pages maintained by a professor at NYU that should be very helpful to students new to philosophy:
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- Ethics
and Justice
An overview of the main ethical theories and issues in applied ethics, with links to some very helpful webpages that explain each one further.
- Ethics
Updates
Very useful links relating both to general ethical theory (including sections on some of the major historical figures) and to various issues in applied ethics.
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Ethics on the World Wide Web
Pages of links, with descriptions of each, organized by category. The strength seems to be in various areas of applied ethics, rather than more general theory.
- Applied
Ethics Resources
Pages of links, organized by category, which are meant to be useful to people doing research in applied ethics.
- Here are a number of very helpful sites about biomedical
ethics and related areas:
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Perseus Digital Library: Nicomachean Ethics
A complete on-line version of the text, with hyperlinks and some supporting materials (not to mention the original Greek!). Very useful if you're looking for the location(s) of a particular term - but note that this is a different translation than our book.
- Table
of Virtues and Vices
Just like it says: a chart listing the virtues that Aristotle discusses, along with the corresponding vices.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Aristotle's Ethics
A clear summary of Aristotle's views, with sections on most of the topics that we cover. A table of contents at the top of the page lets you jump to a particular section if you'd like.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Virtue Ethics
A very helpful discussion of virtue ethics more generally, considering its historical bases (in Aristotle and others), some present versions, and possible future directions.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Moral Character
An overview of philosophical approaches to the notion of character, which is at the heart of any virtue-based approach to ethics. The discussion includes brief presentations of some ancient and modern alternatives to Aristotle's views, as well as contemporary questions about that notion.
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Immanuel Kant: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
A complete on-line version of the text. Very useful if you're looking for the location(s) of a particular term - but note that this is a different translation than our book.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Kant's Moral Philosophy
A general explanation of Kant's views on ethics, including some of the key issues from our readings from the Grounding. (But note that this page also draws from Kant's other writings on ethics.)
- Kant's
Grounding - A Brief Summary
A very clear and accessible summary of the first 2 sections of the Grounding, written by a very well-respected philosopher. As the name says, though, it's brief - so there's not much detail or analysis. A good starting point.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - "Original
Position" and "Distributive
Justice"
Although these entries aren't about Rawls and Nozick exclusively, they are directly relevant to our class. The entry on the "original position" discusses our reading from Rawls. The entry on "distributive justice" explains and examines Rawls's and Nozick's views in relation to each other and other alternatives.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Jeremy Bentham
This site provides a general overview of Bentham's life and thinking. Particularly relevant to us is the section on his moral philosophy.
- Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - John Stuart Mill
This site provides a general overview of Mill's life and thinking. Particularly relevant to us is the section on Utilitarianism, which discusses each chapter in turn.
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Consequentialism
A very helpful discussion of a number of key issues relating to utilitarianism and other consequentialist approaches to ethics.
- Utilitarian.net
Links to online editions of many utilitarian writings, from Bentham and Mill to the present day, as well as many other resources about utilitarianism.
- Utilitarianism
Resources
Just what the title says: a long list of links to resources about utilitarianism.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Feminist Ethics
A discussion of the full variety of views that are considered in some way "feminist" ethics. This provides an interesting way of approaching and situating the care-based approach that we focus on.
- Encyclopedia
of Informal Education page about Nel Noddings
Includes biographical information as well as an explanation of some of the main ideas of Noddings' ethics of care and its applications to education.
- [It would be nice to have some more links to add here...]
Please e-mail clearfms[at]whitman[dot]edu
if you find any broken links
or have suggestions for links to add. Thanks!
this page last updated September 21, 2011