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8 – 20 MINUTES

[9:25] Today we are talking about art and aesthetic appreciation. What makes something an artwork? Can art really be de…

[8:34] Sean Michael Carroll (born 5 October 1966) is a cosmologist and Physics professor specializing in dark energy a…

[10:37] How do art and morality intersect? Today we look at an ethically questionable work of art and discuss R. G. Colli…

[9:33] We begin our unit on ethics with a look at metaethics. Hank explains three forms of moral realism – moral absolu…

[9:01] As we venture into the world of ethics, there are a lot of different answers to the grounding problem for us to expl…

[9:38] Our exploration of ethical theories continues with another theistic answer to the grounding problem: natural …

[10:26] Our next stop on our tour of ethics is Kant’s ethics. Today Hank explains hypothetical and categorical imper…

[10:00] Our next stop in our tour of the ethical lay of the land is utilitarianism. With a little help from Batman, Hank ex…

[9:31] Today we explore the penultimate ethical theory in this unit: contractarianism. Hank explains Hobbes’ stat…

[9:21] This week we explore final ethical theory in this unit: Aristotle’s virtue theory. Hank explains the Golden M…