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In-depth philosophy courses taught by leading scholars. Explore philosophy from the ancient world to the present, alongside foundational ideas across the arts and sciences. Ergo is a nonprofit, and every course is freely available.
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Are You a Good Person?
Most people wonder, at some point, whether they are truly good. But what does goodness even mean, and why is it so hard to define? In this opening lecture, Lee Braver lays out the roadmap for a course exploring the most influential answers Western philoso
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Socrates Made Athens Question Everything
Lee Braver opens his history of Western ethics at its source: Socrates in ancient Athens. The lecture follows Socrates into the marketplace, where he dismantled confident claims about virtue and drew crowds with his persistent questioning of self-proclaim
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Is Good Just What the Gods Want?
In this lecture, Lee Braver continues the discussion of Plato's Euthyphro. Now that Socrates has laid out the requirements that an ethical theory must meet, Euthyphro attempts to define piety as "what the gods love," a claim Socrates once again dismantles
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Are Humans Just Pleasure Seekers?
In this lecture, Lee Braver introduces John Stuart Mill as the course's first true ethicist, distinguishing him from Socrates, who focused on what an ethical theory needs rather than offering one. Mill's utilitarianism attempts to answer Socrates' challen
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Can You Measure Happiness?
What makes an action right or wrong? In this lecture, Lee Braver classifies Mill's utilitarianism as a consequentialist theory, one that judges actions solely by the results they produce rather than the intentions behind them. He explains its core commitm
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