Ethicality
Ethicality & Mindfulness Podcast
Panopto video links to Peter’s Lecture series on Business Ethics. Best viewed in order, but not imperative. Materials comprise the entire lecture content of a course delivered at Lancaster University.
Lecture 1 – Managing as an intrinsically ethical endeavour
Full video with slides
Lecture 2 – From divine commands to the theory of moral sentiments
Full video with slides
Lecture 3 – Judgements of value, utilitarianism and normativity
Full video with slides
Lecture 4 – Virtue ethics and Machiavelli
Full video with slides
Lecture 5 – Capitalism and Corporations
Full video with slides
Lecture 6 – The Amorality of Economics and Scientism
Full video with slides
Lecture 7 – Science and Scientists – following the scientists following the money
Full video with slides
Lecture 8 – Scandals and Crises [1] – who judges the judges
Full video with slides
Lecture 9 – Scandals and Crises [2] – a ‘battery’ of ethical problems – it’s all about ‘power’!
Full video with slides
Virtue – Virtue Ethics
(BBC In Our Time)
Kant’s Categorical Imperative
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Kant’s best known ideas: ‘Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law‘.
(BBC In Our Time)
Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche’s influential ideas about what it means to be moral.
(BBC In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss utilitarianism, a moral theory that assesses acts by their tendency to increase pleasure in the world and decrease the amount of pain.
(BBC In Our Time)
Morality
Three fascinating discussions of Morality
- The Morality of Business
- The Morality of Competition
- The Morality of Ends and Means
(BBC The Moral Maze)
The Trolley Problem
Michael Sandel on the famous moral conundrum.
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