This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video provides a set of examples meant to help viewers understand ch. 2 of W.D. Ross' The Right and the Good. In this video, we focus first on Ross' notion that the "moral convictions of thoughtful and educated people are the data of ethics".
Then, around 7:10, we shift to discussing on Ross' criticisms of other moral theories, which he thinks have misunderstood the nature of duty and duties, in particular Egoism, Hedonism, Utilitarianism, and Kant's version of Deontology
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You can find the copy of the text I am using for this sequence on Ross' The Right and the Good here - http://amzn.to/2xezcR3
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