Course | 24.02x | MIT Open Learning Library

Skip to main content

All Courses
About
Contact

Sign in

Create Account

Course , current location

Moral Problems and the Good Life

Sign in or register to access all course content, save course progress, save responses before submitting, and more!

1. Welcome!
2. Outline, Logistics and Policies
1. Lecture 1 --- What is Ethics? (18 Questions)
  
  This content is graded

Upcoming Dates

Course End

This course is archived, which means you can review course content but it is no longer active.

Course Handouts

Readings:

Lecture 1: Epicurus and Lucretius on death

Lecture 2: Mill, Utilitarianism

Lecture 3: Butler, Sermon XI

Lecture 4: Wolf, Meaning in Life

Lecture 5: Epicurus and Lucretius on death, again

Lecture 6: Plato, Euthyphro

Lecture 7: Appiah, Chapter 2 of Cosmopolitanism

Lecture 8: Appiah, Chapter 3 of Cosmopolitanism

Lecture 9: Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation. Read: Chapter 1, Chapter 4, footnote 5 in Chapter 10, and Sections 1, 2, and 11–18 of Chapter 2 (footnotes optional).

Lecture 10: Kant, Groundwork

Lecture 11: Kant, Groundwork

Lecture 12: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Lecture 13: Thomson, The Trolley Problem

Lecture 14: Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Lecture 15: Boonin, How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem

Lecture 16: Singer, All Animals Are Equal

Open Learning Library
About
Accessibility
All Courses
Why Support MIT Open Learning?
Help

Connect
Contact
Twitter
Facebook

Privacy Policy
Terms of Service

© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025