AJ 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alasdair Macintyre, Nel Noddings, Consequentialism
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Other ethical systems: the two main examples of deontological and teleological ethics are utilitarianism and ethical formalism. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the topic of ethics occurred before kant and. Bentham; for example, we haven"t addressed the views of socrates, plato, or. Epicurus and, sadly, have no place in this text to do so. The debate has also continued through the work of friedrich nietzsche, jean- Paul sartre, john rawls, alasdair macintyre, john finnis, nel noddings, among many others, into modern times. We keep on pondering the old questions about what it means to be a decent person. A few additional ethical structures will be listed below but the interested reader is encouraged to add any standard ethical text to this reading. Religion: religion is perhaps the most commonly used source of single ethics. "a faith also provides moral guidance and instructions for how one"s life should be lived.
