Introduction to Moral Reasoning

Part I - Premises

1. What is Moral Reasoning?
2. Why Study Moral Reasoning?
3. How to Study
4. Traditions in Philosophy

Part II - Early Moral Theory

1. Socrates and Plato
2. Epicurus and Lucretius
3. Diogenes, Alexander and Aristotle
4. Alexander the great; Conqueror king or Philosopher king
5. Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Cornelius Fronto and Seneca
6. Philosophy on the Silk Road

Part III - Judeo-Christian Moral Theory

1. Biblical Precedents
2. Maimonides
3. St. Augustine
4. Thomas Aquinas
5. C.S. Lewis

Part IV - Secular Moral Theory

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. David Hume
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Ludwig Feuerbach
6. Friedrich Nietzsche

Part V - Responses to Secularism

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Martin Buber

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